Pulleys, gears and big machines, sentence 15
You must never go under a car held up only by a jack, because it can slip.
Who acts: You, jack · What happens: not go, hold up, slip · To what, where: 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 (You, jack), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 car | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 car | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 held | compound:prt |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 held | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 jack | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 jack | det |
| 13 | jack | jack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slip | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 slip | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 slip | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 slip | aux |
| 18 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | must | You | a car | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under car=Location | ||||
| 2 | hold up | participle | a car not said here | by a jack | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | slip | can | jack | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:15.
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): no change. 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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