Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere, sentence 16

A curling stone slides far because smooth ice has very little friction, and the sweepers smooth and warm the ice to make it glide further.

Who acts: curling stone, smooth ice, sweepers, ice · What happens: slide, have, smooth, warm, make, glide · To what, where: little friction, ice

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» 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 (curling stone, smooth ice, sweepers, ice), 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 stone	det
2	curling	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stone	compound
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slides	nsubj
4	slides	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 slides	advmod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 has	mark
7	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ice	amod
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slides	advcl
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 little	advmod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friction	amod
12	friction	friction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 smooth	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 smooth	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sweepers	det
16	sweepers	sweeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 smooth	nsubj
17	smooth	smooth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slides	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 warm	cc
19	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 smooth	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ice	det
21	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 warm	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 warm	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	glide	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	xcomp
26	further	further	ADV	_	25 glide	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slides	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slide	present	a curling stone		far property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	smooth ice	little friction		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friction=Patient
3	smooth	present	the sweepers			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	warm	infinitive	the sweepers not said here	the ice		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ice=Patient
5	make	to-infinitive	the sweepers not said here	ice		tree rules
6	glide	infinitive	ice not said here		further 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:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:16.

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 ×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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