Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard, sentence 1

Gears are like the gears on a bike: low gears give a strong push to start and climb hills, high gears let the wheels turn fast while the engine turns slowly.

Who acts: Gears, low gears, high gears, wheels, engine · What happens: be, give, start, climb, let, turn · To what, where: bike, strong push, hills

This is a sentence of the lesson «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» of the technology 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 (Gears, low gears, high gears, wheels), 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	Gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gears	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gears	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 gears	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gears	det
5	gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 bike	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bike	det
8	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gears	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
10	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gears	amod
11	gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	nsubj
12	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gears	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 push	det
14	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 push	amod
15	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 start	mark
17	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 push	acl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 climb	cc
19	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 start	conj
20	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 climb	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gears	punct
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gears	amod
23	gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 let	nsubj
24	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 give	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wheels	det
26	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 turn	nsubj
27	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 turn	advmod
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 turns	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 engine	det
31	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 turns	nsubj
32	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 turn	advcl
33	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	32 turns	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gears	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gears		a bike	like the gears	tree rules
2	give	present	low gears	a strong push			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent push=Theme
3	start	to-infinitive	low gears not said here	a strong push not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	climb	infinitive	low gears not said here	hills			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme
5	let	infinitive	high gears				tree rules
6	turn	infinitive	the wheels			fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	turn	present	the engine			slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: 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:technology:017-inside-a-car.lesson:1.

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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/1/