Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★, sentence 12

Two batteries in a row pushing the same way push about twice as hard; if one is turned round, they push against each other and the bulb hardly lights.

Who acts: Two batteries, batteries, bulb · What happens: push, push about, turn round, light · To what, where: same way, one

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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 batteries, batteries, bulb), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 batteries	nummod
2	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 push	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 row	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 row	det
5	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 batteries	nmod
6	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 batteries	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushing	obj
10	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 twice	advmod
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 push	advmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 hard	advmod
14	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 push	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 push	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 turned	mark
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 turned	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 turned	aux:pass
19	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 push	advcl
20	round	round	ADV	_	19 turned	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 turned	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 push	nsubj
23	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 push	parataxis
24	against	against	ADP	_	25 each	case
25	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	23 push	obl
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 each	fixed
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lights	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bulb	det
29	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lights	nsubj
30	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	31 lights	advmod
31	lights	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 push	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 push	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push	gerund	Two batteries in a row not said here	the same way		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	push about	present	Two batteries in a row		hard, twice property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	turn round a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		one	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	push	present	batteries = battery		against each	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against each=Theme
5	light	present	the bulb		hardly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:12.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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