Friction: the grip that stops and helps, sentence 3

Rub your hands together on a cold day and they warm up: friction always turns some movement into heat.

Who acts: you, hands, friction · What happens: rub, warm up, turn · To what, where: hands, movement, heat

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 (you, hands, friction), 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	Rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rub	obj
4	together	together	ADV	_	1 Rub	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rub	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 warm	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 warm	nsubj
11	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Rub	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 warm	compound:prt
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 turns	punct
14	friction	friction	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turns	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 turns	advmod
16	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 warm	conj
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 movement	det
18	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turns	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 heat	case
20	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turns	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Rub	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	imperative	you not said here	your hands		day	together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	warm up	present	hands = hand					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	turn	present	friction	some movement	heat		always property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent movement=Theme into heat=Trajectory

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:3.

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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