Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 5
A force is a push or a pull, and it is what changes how something moves.
Who acts: force, it, something · What happens: be, move · To what, where: push
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 (force, it, something), 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 | 2 force | det |
| 2 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 push | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 push | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 push | det |
| 5 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 pull | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pull | det |
| 8 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 push | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 changes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 changes | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 changes | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 changes | cop |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 changes | nsubj |
| 14 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 push | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 moves | advmod |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 moves | nsubj |
| 17 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 changes | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 push | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a force | a push or a pull | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | change property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | move | present | something | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:004-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop.lesson:5.
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): no change. 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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