Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip, sentence 18
A banana skin is slippery because its squashed inside makes a slimy layer between your shoe and the floor.
Who acts: banana skin, squashed inside · What happens: be, squash, make · To what, where: slimy layer
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 (banana skin, squashed inside), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 skin | det |
| 2 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 skin | compound |
| 3 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slippery | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slippery | cop |
| 5 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 makes | mark |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 inside | nmod:poss |
| 8 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 inside | amod |
| 9 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slippery | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 layer | det |
| 12 | slimy | slimy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 layer | amod |
| 13 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | obj |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 shoe | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 layer | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 floor | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shoe | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slippery | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a banana skin | slippery property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | squash | participle | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | make | present | skin's squashed inside | a slimy layer | between your shoe and the floor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset layer=Product |
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:18.
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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