Friction: the grip that stops and helps, sentence 9
Bike brakes squeeze rubber pads against the wheel, and the harder you squeeze, the more they grip.
Who acts: Bike brakes, you, brakes · What happens: squeeze, grip · To what, where: rubber pads, wheel
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 (Bike brakes, you, brakes), 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 | Bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brakes | compound |
| 2 | brakes | brake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 squeeze | nsubj |
| 3 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pads | compound |
| 5 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 squeeze | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 wheel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wheel | det |
| 8 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 squeeze | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 harder | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 harder | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 harder | det |
| 12 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 squeeze | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 squeeze | nsubj |
| 14 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 harder | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 harder | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 more | det |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 grip | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grip | nsubj |
| 19 | grip | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 squeeze | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squeeze | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | present | Bike brakes | rubber pads | the wheel | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pad=Theme against wheel=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | squeeze | present | you | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grip | present | brakes = brake | 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:9.
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, 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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