Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 2

A screw is a ramp wrapped round a rod: each turn creeps it in a little way with a big push, and jar lids and bottle caps are screws too.

Who acts: screw, turn, jar lids · What happens: be, wrap, creep · To what, where: ramp, rod, little way, screws

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 (screw, turn, jar lids), 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 screw	det
2	screw	screw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ramp	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ramp	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ramp	det
5	ramp	ramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ramp	acl
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 rod	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rod	det
9	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrapped	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 creeps	punct
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 turn	det
12	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 creeps	nsubj
13	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ramp	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 creeps	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 way	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 creeps	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 push	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 push	det
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 push	amod
22	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 creeps	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 screws	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 screws	cc
25	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lids	compound
26	lids	lid	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 screws	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 caps	cc
28	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 caps	compound
29	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lids	conj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 screws	cop
31	screws	screw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ramp	conj
32	too	too	ADV	_	31 screws	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ramp	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a screw	a ramp and screws			tree rules
2	wrap	participle		a ramp and screws not said here	a rod		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round rod=Destination
3	creep	present	each turn	ramp	a little way	with a big push	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
4	is a	present	jar lids and bottle caps	screws			tree rules

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:2.

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): R5-strong ×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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