Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 5

A wheel and axle turns a big wheel with a small force into a strong twist on the small axle; door handles, steering wheels, taps and fat screwdriver handles use it.

Who acts: wheel, door handles · What happens: turn, use · To what, where: big wheel, strong twist, axle

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 (wheel, door handles), 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 wheel	det
2	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 axle	cc
4	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wheel	conj
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 wheel	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wheel	amod
8	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 force	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 force	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 force	amod
12	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wheel	nmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 twist	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 twist	det
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 twist	amod
16	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turns	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 axle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 axle	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 axle	amod
20	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 twist	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 handles	punct
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 handles	compound
23	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 use	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wheels	punct
25	steering	steering	NOUN	_	26 wheels	compound
26	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 handles	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 taps	punct
28	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 handles	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 handles	cc
30	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 handles	amod
31	screwdriver	screwdriver	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 handles	compound
32	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 handles	conj
33	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turns	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 use	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	a wheel and axle	a big wheel		a strong twist on the small axle		with a small force	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme into twist=Trajectory
2	use	present	door handles and steering wheels and taps and fat screwdriver handles	axle					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:5.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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