Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip, sentence 17
Knots in laces hold only because the lace rubs on itself.
Who acts: Knots, lace · What happens: hold, rub
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: who acts (Knots, lace), 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 | Knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hold | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 laces | case |
| 3 | laces | lace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Knots | nmod |
| 4 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 hold | advmod |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 9 rubs | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lace | det |
| 8 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rubs | nsubj |
| 9 | rubs | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 itself | case |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 rubs | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Knots in laces | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rub | present | the lace | on slope | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on itself=Destination |
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:17.
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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