Friction: the grip that stops and helps, sentence 5
Friction is the grip between two touching surfaces; rough surfaces and surfaces pressed hard together grip more.
Who acts: Friction · What happens: be, touch, press, grip · To what, where: grip, two touching surfaces
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 (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 | Friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grip | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grip | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 grip | det |
| 4 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 surfaces | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 surfaces | nummod |
| 7 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 surfaces | amod |
| 8 | surfaces | surface | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grip | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 surfaces | punct |
| 10 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 surfaces | amod |
| 11 | surfaces | surface | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 surfaces | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 surfaces | cc |
| 13 | surfaces | surface | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 surfaces | conj |
| 14 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 surfaces | acl |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 pressed | advmod |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 pressed | advmod |
| 17 | grip | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grip | parataxis |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 grip | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grip | 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 | is a | present | Friction | the grip | between two touching surfaces and rough surfaces and surfaces | tree rules | |||
| 2 | touch | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | press | participle | two touching surfaces and rough surfaces and surfaces not said here | hard, together property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | grip | present | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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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