Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 4
When two forces are equal and opposite, as in a tug of war where nobody wins, they cancel and nothing changes.
Who acts: two forces, nobody, grass, nothing · What happens: be, win, cancel, change, tug · To what, where: war
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 (two forces, nobody, grass, nothing), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 equal | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 forces | nummod |
| 3 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 equal | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 equal | cop |
| 5 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 opposite | cc |
| 7 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 equal | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 equal | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 tug | case |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tug | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tug | det |
| 12 | tug | tug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 equal | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 war | case |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tug | nmod |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 wins | advmod |
| 16 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 wins | nsubj |
| 17 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tug | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cancel | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cancel | nsubj |
| 20 | cancel | cancel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 equal | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 changes | cc |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 changes | nsubj |
| 23 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 cancel | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 cancel | 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 | is | present | two forces | equal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | two forces not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | win | present | nobody | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cancel | present | grass | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | change | present | nothing | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tug | war | nom tug «act transitive»: of=patient |
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:4.
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, R6-punct-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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