Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 8
Mountain roads zigzag so they are longer but much less steep, and cars and walkers can climb without slipping or straining.
Who acts: Mountain roads, roads, cars · What happens: zigzag, be, climb, slip, strain
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 (Mountain roads, roads, cars), 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 | Mountain | mountain | NOUN | _ | 2 roads | compound |
| 2 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 zigzag | nsubj |
| 3 | zigzag | zigzag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 longer | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 longer | cop |
| 7 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 zigzag | advcl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 steep | cc |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 less | advmod |
| 10 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 steep | advmod |
| 11 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 longer | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 climb | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 climb | cc |
| 14 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 climb | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walkers | cc |
| 16 | walkers | walker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cars | conj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 climb | aux |
| 18 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 zigzag | conj |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 slipping | mark |
| 20 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 climb | advcl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 straining | cc |
| 22 | straining | strain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 slipping | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 zigzag | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zigzag | present | Mountain roads | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | roads = road | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | roads = road not said here | less property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | climb | can | cars and walkers | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | slip | gerund | cars and walkers not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | strain | gerund | cars and walkers not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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