Pulleys, gears and big machines, sentence 9

Gears in a clock let one motor turn the minute hand twelve times round for each single turn of the hour hand.

Who acts: Gears, one motor · What happens: let, turn · To what, where: one motor, minute hand

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 (Gears, one motor), 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	Gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 let	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 clock	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clock	det
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gears	nmod
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 motor	nummod
7	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obj
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hand	det
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hand	compound
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obj
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 times	nummod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turn	obl:unmarked
14	round	round	ADV	_	8 turn	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 turn	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 turn	det
17	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 turn	amod
18	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 hand	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hand	det
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hand	compound
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turn	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	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	let	infinitive	Gears in a clock	one motor					tree rules
2	turn	infinitive	one motor not said here	the minute hand			time	for each single turn of the hour hand; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=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: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): R8-pos-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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