Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 6
Old lorries without power steering had huge steering wheels to give the driver more turning force.
Who acts: Old lorries · What happens: have, give, turn · To what, where: huge steering wheels, turning force, driver
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 (Old lorries), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lorries | amod |
| 2 | lorries | lorry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 steering | case |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 steering | compound |
| 5 | steering | steering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lorries | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wheels | amod |
| 8 | steering | steering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wheels | compound |
| 9 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 driver | det |
| 13 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | iobj |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 turning | advmod |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 force | amod |
| 16 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Old lorries without power steering | huge steering wheels | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | Old lorries without power steering not said here | turning force | the driver | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient force=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:6.
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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