Speed: fast and slow, sentence 12
A lighter car speeds up faster than a heavy lorry with the same engine.
Who acts: lighter car · What happens: speed up
This is a sentence of the lesson «Speed: fast and slow» 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 (lighter car), 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 car | det |
| 2 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 car | amod |
| 3 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speeds | nsubj |
| 4 | speeds | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 speeds | compound:prt |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 speeds | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 lorry | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lorry | det |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lorry | amod |
| 10 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speeds | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 engine | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 engine | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 engine | amod |
| 14 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lorry | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speeds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed up | present | a lighter car | than a heavy lorry with the same engine; fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:036-speed-fast-and-slow.lesson:12.
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): R5-strong ×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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