Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights, sentence 17

A lorry's big diesel engine pulls a heavy trailer, and lots of wheels spread the weight; a full lorry can weigh as much as thirty cars.

Who acts: big diesel engine, lots, full lorry · What happens: pull, spread, weigh · To what, where: heavy trailer, weight, much

This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» 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 (big diesel engine, lots, full lorry), 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	2 lorry	det
2	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 engine	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lorry	case
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 engine	amod
5	diesel	diesel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 engine	compound
6	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulls	nsubj
7	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trailer	det
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trailer	amod
10	trailer	trailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulls	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spread	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spread	cc
13	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spread	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 wheels	case
15	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lots	nmod
16	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pulls	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 weight	det
18	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spread	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 weigh	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lorry	det
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lorry	amod
22	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weigh	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 weigh	aux
24	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pulls	parataxis
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 weigh	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 cars	case
28	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 cars	nummod
29	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 weigh	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pulls	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	present	a lorry's big diesel engine	a heavy trailer		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trailer=Theme
2	spread	present	lots of wheels	the weight		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location weight=Theme
3	weigh	can	a full lorry	much	as thirty cars	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value

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:020-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights.lesson:17.

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): 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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