Pulleys, gears and big machines, sentence 14
A car jack uses a screw or a liquid pump so that many small easy turns of a handle add up to lifting a whole car.
Who acts: car jack, many small easy turns · What happens: use, add up, lift · To what, where: screw, whole car
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 (car jack, many small easy turns), 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 | 3 jack | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jack | compound |
| 3 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uses | nsubj |
| 4 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 screw | det |
| 6 | screw | screw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uses | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 pump | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pump | det |
| 9 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pump | amod |
| 10 | pump | pump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 screw | conj |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 20 add | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 add | mark |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 turns | amod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 turns | amod |
| 15 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 turns | amod |
| 16 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 add | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 handle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 handle | det |
| 19 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turns | nmod |
| 20 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 uses | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 add | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 23 lifting | mark |
| 23 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 add | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 car | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 car | amod |
| 26 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lifting | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | a car jack | a screw or a liquid pump | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screw=Patient | ||||
| 2 | add up speech: assert | present | many small easy turns of a handle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | lift | gerund | many small easy turns of a handle not said here | a whole car | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=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:14.
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, R8-pos-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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