Friction: the grip that stops and helps, sentence 15

A slide is faster on a smooth mat or in smooth shorts than in rough jeans, because smooth material rubs less; bare, sweaty legs grip a metal slide, squeak and slow you down.

Who acts: slide, smooth material, bare sweaty legs · What happens: be, rub, grip, squeak, slow down · To what, where: smooth mat, metal slide, you

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 (slide, smooth material, bare sweaty legs), 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 slide	det
2	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faster	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 faster	cop
4	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 mat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mat	det
7	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mat	amod
8	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faster	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 shorts	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 shorts	case
11	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shorts	amod
12	shorts	short	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mat	conj
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 jeans	case
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 jeans	case
15	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 jeans	amod
16	jeans	jeans	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 faster	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rubs	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	21 rubs	mark
19	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 material	amod
20	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rubs	nsubj
21	rubs	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 faster	advcl
22	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 rubs	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 grip	punct
24	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 legs	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bare	punct
26	sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 legs	amod
27	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 grip	nsubj
28	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 jeans	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 slide	det
30	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slide	compound
31	slide	slide	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grip	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 squeak	punct
33	squeak	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 grip	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 slow	cc
35	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 squeak	conj
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 slow	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 slow	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 faster	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a slide		a smooth mat or smooth shorts	than rough jeans; fast property	tree rules
2	rub	present	smooth material			less property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	grip	present	bare sweaty legs	a metal slide			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slide=Experiencer
4	squeak	present	bare sweaty legs not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	slow down	infinitive	bare sweaty legs not said here	you			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=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:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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