Friction: the grip that stops and helps, sentence 8
Rubbing your hands makes friction, and friction turns movement into heat; a rope rushing through your hands can even burn them.
Who acts: Rubbing, friction, rope · What happens: rub, make, turn, rush, burn · To what, where: hands, friction, 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 (Rubbing, friction, rope), 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 | Rubbing | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 makes | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rubbing | obj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turns | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turns | cc |
| 8 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | nsubj |
| 9 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 makes | conj |
| 10 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 heat | case |
| 12 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 burn | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rope | det |
| 15 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burn | nsubj |
| 16 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 rope | acl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 hands | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rushing | obl |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 burn | aux |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 burn | advmod |
| 22 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 burn | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | gerund | your hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Rubbing | friction | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friction=Product | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | friction | movement | heat | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent movement=Theme into heat=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | rush | gerund | a rope not said here | your hands | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hand=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | burn | can | a rope | hands = hand | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:8.
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): R7-rel-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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