Pushes and pulls all around us, sentence 12

Wind pushes on a sail, and the bigger the sail and the stronger the wind, the bigger the push; sailors can even sail partly against the wind by angling the sail.

Who acts: Wind, sailors · What happens: push, sail, angle · To what, where: sail

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls all around us» 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 (Wind, sailors), 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	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	nsubj
2	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 sail	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sail	det
5	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bigger	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bigger	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bigger	det
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 pushes	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sail	det
11	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bigger	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stronger	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stronger	det
14	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 bigger	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stronger	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bigger	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bigger	det
19	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 push	amod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 push	det
21	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wind	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sail	punct
23	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sail	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sail	aux
25	even	even	ADV	_	26 sail	advmod
26	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pushes	parataxis
27	partly	partly	ADV	_	26 sail	advmod
28	against	against	ADP	_	30 wind	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wind	det
30	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sail	obl
31	by	by	SCONJ	_	32 angling	mark
32	angling	angle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sail	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sail	det
34	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 angling	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pushes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push	present	Wind		on a sail	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on sail=Theme
2	sail	can	sailors		against the wind; partly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	angle	gerund	sailors not said here	the sail		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sail=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:005-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us.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 ×1, 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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