Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip, sentence 6

Wheels roll instead of rub, so a suitcase on wheels moves easily, and before wheels people rolled huge stones on logs.

Who acts: Wheels, suitcase, people · What happens: roll, move · To what, where: huge stones, logs

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 (Wheels, suitcase, people), 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	Wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roll	nsubj
2	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	5 rub	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	rub	rub	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roll	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moves	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 moves	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 suitcase	det
9	suitcase	suitcase	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 moves	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 wheels	case
11	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 suitcase	nmod
12	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 roll	conj
13	easily	easily	ADV	_	12 moves	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rolled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rolled	cc
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 wheels	case
17	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rolled	obl
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rolled	nsubj
19	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 roll	conj
20	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stones	amod
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rolled	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 logs	case
23	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rolled	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 roll	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	Wheels				instead rub	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	present	a suitcase on wheels				easily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	roll	past	people	huge stones	logs	before wheels		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme before wheel=Source on log=Trajectory

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:6.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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