Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 16
Rockets work in the same way, pushing hot gas out of the back so that the gas pushes them forward.
Who acts: Rockets, gas · What happens: work, push · To what, where: hot gas, back, Rockets
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop» 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 (Rockets, gas), 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 | Rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 work | nsubj |
| 2 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 work | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pushing | punct |
| 8 | pushing | push | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 work | advcl |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gas | amod |
| 10 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pushing | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 back | det |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pushing | obl |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 19 pushes | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 pushes | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gas | det |
| 18 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pushes | nsubj |
| 19 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pushing | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pushes | obj |
| 21 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 19 pushes | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Rockets | in the same way | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push | gerund | Rockets not said here | hot gas | the back | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent gas=Theme out back=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | push | present | the gas | Rockets = rocket | forward property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:004-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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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