Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 9
A screw is a ramp wrapped round a rod, and each turn moves it in a little way with a big push.
Who acts: screw, turn · What happens: be, wrap, move · To what, where: ramp, rod, screw, little way
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), 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 | _ | 14 moves | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 moves | cc |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 turn | det |
| 13 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moves | nsubj |
| 14 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ramp | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 moves | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moves | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 push | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 push | det |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 push | amod |
| 23 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moves | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 screw | a ramp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | a ramp not said here | a rod | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round rod=Destination | ||||
| 3 | move | present | each turn | screw | a little way | with a big push | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:9.
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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