Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★, sentence 16

"This weighs a ton" is hyperbole: a ton is 1,000 kilograms, about as much as a small car, and no school bag or box a child can carry weighs that.

Who acts: This, ton, child, school bag · What happens: weigh, be, carry · To what, where: ton, hyperbole, 1,000 kilograms, box, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» 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 (This, ton, child, school bag), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 weighs	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 weighs	nsubj
3	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hyperbole	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ton	det
5	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weighs	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 weighs	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hyperbole	cop
8	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 hyperbole	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ton	det
11	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kilograms	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kilograms	cop
13	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 kilograms	nummod
14	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hyperbole	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 much	punct
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kilograms	appos
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 car	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 car	det
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 car	amod
22	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 much	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bag	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bag	cc
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 bag	det
26	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bag	compound
27	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 weighs	nsubj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 box	cc
29	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bag	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 child	det
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carry	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 carry	aux
33	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 box	acl:relcl
34	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hyperbole	conj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 weighs	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hyperbole	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	weigh in a quote	present	This	a ton	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ton=Value
2	is a	present		hyperbole	tree rules
3	is a	present	a ton	1,000 kilograms	tree rules
4	carry	can	a child	box not said here	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
5	weigh	present	no school bag or box	that	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme that=Value

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:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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