Pushes and pulls all around us, sentence 6
A duck's webbed feet push more water than plain toes would.
Who acts: webbed feet · What happens: push · To what, where: more water
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 (webbed feet), 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 | 2 duck | det |
| 2 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 duck | case |
| 4 | webbed | web | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feet | amod |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 push | nsubj |
| 6 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 push | obj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 toes | case |
| 10 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 toes | amod |
| 11 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 would | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 push | aux |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 push | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | would | a duck's webbed feet | more water | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:6.
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, R8-pos-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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