Friction: the grip that stops and helps, sentence 17
Heavier things press harder on the floor and so have more friction.
Who acts: Heavier things · What happens: press, have · To what, where: more friction
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 (Heavier things), 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 | Heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 press | nsubj |
| 3 | press | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 press | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 press | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 have | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 press | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 friction | amod |
| 12 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 press | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | present | Heavier things | on the floor; hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on floor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Heavier things not said here | more friction | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friction=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:17.
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): no change. 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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