Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip, sentence 12
On a TV show, two interleaved phone books could not be pulled apart even by two cars.
What happens: not pull apart · To what, where: two interleaved phone books, TV show
This is a sentence of the lesson «Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip» 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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 show | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 show | det |
| 3 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | compound |
| 4 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 books | nummod |
| 7 | interleaved | interleave | ADJ | _ | 9 books | amod |
| 8 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 books | compound |
| 9 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pulled | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 pulled | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pulled | aux:pass |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 13 pulled | advmod |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 pulled | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 cars | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 cars | nummod |
| 18 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pulled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulled | 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 | not pull apart | could · passive | two interleaved phone books | a TV show | by two cars; apart property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:007-living-with-friction.lesson:12.
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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