Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 3
A wedge, like an axe head or a door stop, is a ramp that turns one downward blow into strong sideways pushes.
Who acts: wedge, ramp · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: ramp, one downward blow, strong sideways pushes
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 (wedge, ramp), 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 wedge | det |
| 2 | wedge | wedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ramp | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 head | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 6 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | compound |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wedge | appos |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 stop | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stop | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stop | compound |
| 11 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wedge | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ramp | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ramp | det |
| 15 | ramp | ramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 turns | nsubj |
| 17 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ramp | acl:relcl |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 blow | nummod |
| 19 | downward | downward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blow | amod |
| 20 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turns | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 pushes | case |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pushes | amod |
| 23 | sideways | sideway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pushes | compound |
| 24 | pushes | push | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 turns | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ramp | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a wedge | a ramp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | a ramp | one downward blow | strong sideways pushes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent blow=Theme into push=Trajectory |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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