Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip, sentence 5
Car engines need oil; without it their metal parts would rub, heat up and seize (jam solid).
Who acts: Car engines, metal parts · What happens: need, rub, heat up, seize, jam · To what, where: oil
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 (Car engines, metal parts), 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 | Car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 engines | compound |
| 2 | engines | engine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 rub | punct |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rub | obl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 parts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 parts | compound |
| 10 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rub | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 rub | aux |
| 12 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 need | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heat | punct |
| 14 | heat | heat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rub | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 heat | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seize | cc |
| 17 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rub | conj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 solid | punct |
| 19 | jam | jam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seize | parataxis |
| 20 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 jam | xcomp |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 solid | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | 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 | need | present | Car engines | oil | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot oil=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rub | would | engines's metal parts | without oil | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | heat up | infinitive | engines's metal parts not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | seize | infinitive | engines's metal parts not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | jam | infinitive | solid property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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:5.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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