Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★, sentence 4

Picture Jaz from Yorkshire groaning "This box weighs a ton, I'm literally dying, our kid": "our kid" means my brother, and the ton and the dying are hyperbole, a heavy box and a tired boy, which a pulley can help.

Who acts: you, box, I, kid, ton, pulley · What happens: picture, groan, weigh, die, mean, be · To what, where: Jaz, Yorkshire, ton, brother, hyperbole, heavy box · 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 (you, box, I, kid), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	Jaz	Jaz	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Yorkshire	case
4	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Jaz	nmod
5	groaning	groan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Picture	xcomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 weighs	punct
7	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 box	det
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weighs	nsubj
9	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 groaning	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ton	det
11	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weighs	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dying	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 dying	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dying	aux
15	literally	literally	ADV	_	16 dying	advmod
16	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 weighs	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kid	punct
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 kid	nmod:poss
19	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dying	parataxis
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 kid	punct
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 kid	punct
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 kid	nmod:poss
24	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 means	nsubj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 kid	punct
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dying	parataxis
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 means	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hyperbole	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hyperbole	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ton	det
32	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hyperbole	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 dying	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 dying	det
35	dying	dying	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ton	conj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 hyperbole	cop
37	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 means	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 box	punct
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 box	det
40	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 box	amod
41	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hyperbole	appos
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 boy	cc
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 boy	det
44	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 boy	amod
45	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 box	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 help	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 help	obj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 pulley	det
49	pulley	pulley	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 help	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 help	aux
51	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 box	parataxis
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	Jaz	Yorkshire		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent jaz=Theme clause=Attribute
2	groan	gerund	you not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	weigh in a quote	present	this box	a ton			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ton=Value
4	die in a quote	present · progressive	I			literally property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	mean	present	our kid	my brother			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic
6	is a	present	the ton and the dying	hyperbole			tree rules
7	help	can	a pulley	a heavy box and a tired boy			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary

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: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): 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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