Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip, sentence 8
Climbers and gymnasts put chalk on their hands because it soaks up sweat, and dry skin grips better than sweaty skin.
Who acts: Climbers, chalk, dry skin · What happens: put, soak up, grip · To what, where: chalk, hands, sweat
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 (Climbers, chalk, dry skin), 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 | Climbers | climber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gymnasts | cc |
| 3 | gymnasts | gymnast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Climbers | conj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 soaks | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 soaks | nsubj |
| 11 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 soaks | compound:prt |
| 13 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soaks | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 better | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 better | cc |
| 16 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 skin | amod |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grips | nsubj |
| 18 | grips | grip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 better | nsubj |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 put | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 skin | case |
| 21 | sweaty | sweaty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 skin | amod |
| 22 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 better | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Climbers and gymnasts | chalk | Climbers's hands | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent chalk=Theme on hand=Destination | |||
| 2 | soak up | present | chalk | sweat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sweat=Source | ||||
| 3 | grip | dry skin | tree rules |
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:8.
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, R7-rel-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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