Pulleys, gears and big machines, sentence 0
At school assembly someone pulls the flagpole rope down and the flag climbs up: a single wheel at the top, a pulley, simply turns your downward pull into an upward lift.
Who acts: someone, flag, single wheel, your · What happens: pull, climb up, turn · To what, where: flagpole rope, school assembly, downward pull, upward lift
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pulleys, gears and big machines» 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 (someone, flag, single wheel, your), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 assembly | case |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assembly | compound |
| 3 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulls | obl |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 pulls | nsubj |
| 5 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rope | det |
| 7 | flagpole | flagpole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rope | compound |
| 8 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulls | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 rope | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 climbs | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flag | det |
| 12 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 climbs | nsubj |
| 13 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulls | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 climbs | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 wheel | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wheel | det |
| 17 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wheel | amod |
| 18 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turns | nsubj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 top | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 top | det |
| 21 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wheel | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pulley | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pulley | det |
| 24 | pulley | pulley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wheel | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 turns | punct |
| 26 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 27 turns | advmod |
| 27 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulls | parataxis |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pull | nmod:poss |
| 29 | downward | downward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pull | amod |
| 30 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turns | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 lift | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 lift | det |
| 33 | upward | upward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lift | amod |
| 34 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turns | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present | someone | the flagpole rope | school assembly | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent rope=Theme at assembly=Asset | |||
| 2 | climb up | present | the flag | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | present | a single wheel at the top | your downward pull | a upward lift | simply property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pull=Theme into lift=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | pull | your | nom pull «act transitive»: poss=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:035-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines.lesson:0.
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 ×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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