Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 14

A tap's handle turns a screw thread that moves a valve up and down a little, which is why some taps need many turns to open fully.

Who acts: handle, screw thread, taps · What happens: turn, move, be, need, open · To what, where: screw thread, valve, many turns

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wheels, axles, ramps and screws» of the physics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handle, screw thread, taps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tap	det
2	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handle	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 tap	case
4	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	nsubj
5	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thread	det
7	screw	screw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thread	compound
8	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 moves	nsubj
10	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thread	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 valve	det
12	valve	valve	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moves	obj
13	up	up	ADV	_	10 moves	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 down	cc
15	down	down	ADV	_	13 up	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moves	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 why	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 why	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	cop
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 need	advmod
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 taps	det
23	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 need	nsubj
24	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 moves	advcl
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 turns	amod
26	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 need	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 open	mark
28	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 turns	acl
29	fully	fully	ADV	_	28 open	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	present	a tap's handle	a screw thread		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
2	move	present	a screw thread	a valve	a little obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent valve=Theme
3	is	present			why property	tree rules
4	need	present	some taps	many turns		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot turn=Theme
5	open	to-infinitive	some taps not said here	many turns not said here	fully property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:physics:034-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws.lesson:14.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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