Friction: the grip that stops and helps, sentence 12
On long mountain roads car brakes can get so hot that they stop working well, so drivers use low gears.
Who acts: car brakes, brakes, drivers · What happens: get, stop, work, use · To what, where: long mountain roads, low gears
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friction: the grip that stops and helps» 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 (car brakes, brakes, drivers), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 roads | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 roads | amod |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roads | compound |
| 4 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obl |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brakes | compound |
| 6 | brakes | brake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 hot | advmod |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 get | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 stop | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stop | nsubj |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hot | advcl |
| 14 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stop | xcomp |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | _ | 14 working | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 use | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 use | advmod |
| 18 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 use | nsubj |
| 19 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | conj |
| 20 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gears | amod |
| 21 | gears | gear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 use | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | car brakes | long mountain roads | hot property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on road=Source | |||
| 2 | stop | present | brakes = brake | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | work | gerund | brakes = brake not said here | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | use | present | drivers | low gears | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Patient |
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:006-friction-the-grip.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. 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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