Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 8

A toy car rolls further on a smooth floor than on a carpet, because the carpet's fibres catch the wheels and push back much more.

Who acts: toy car, fibres · What happens: roll, catch, push back · To what, where: smooth floor, wheels, more

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 (toy car, fibres), 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	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 car	compound
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rolls	nsubj
4	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 rolls	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 floor	det
8	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 floor	amod
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rolls	obl
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 carpet	case
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 carpet	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 carpet	det
13	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floor	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rolls	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 catch	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 carpet	det
17	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fibres	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 carpet	case
19	fibres	fibre	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 catch	nsubj
20	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rolls	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wheels	det
22	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 catch	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 push	cc
24	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 catch	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 push	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 push	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rolls	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	present	a toy car		a smooth floor than a carpet	far property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory
2	catch	present	the carpet's fibres	the wheels			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme
3	push back	present	the carpet's fibres not said here	more			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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:8.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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