Pulleys, gears and big machines, sentence 10
Two meshing gears always turn in opposite directions, and a third gear in between makes the last one turn the same way as the first.
Who acts: Two meshing gears, third gear, last one · What happens: turn, make · To what, where: opposite directions, last one, same way
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 (Two meshing gears, third gear, last one), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 gears | nummod |
| 2 | meshing | mesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gears | compound |
| 3 | gears | gear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 directions | case |
| 7 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 directions | amod |
| 8 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 makes | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gear | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 gear | amod |
| 13 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 between | case |
| 15 | between | between | ADV | _ | 13 gear | advmod |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | obj |
| 20 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 way | amod |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turn | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 first | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 first | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 way | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | 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 | Two meshing gears | opposite directions | always property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | make | present | a third gear | the last one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | infinitive | the last one not said here | the same way | as the first | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=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:035-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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