The skeleton and muscles, sentence 14
A muscle can only pull; it cannot push.
Who acts: muscle, cord · What happens: pull, not push
This is a sentence of the lesson «The skeleton and muscles» of the world 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 (muscle, cord), 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 muscle | det |
| 2 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pull | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pull | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 pull | advmod |
| 5 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 push | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 push | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 push | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 push | advmod |
| 10 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pull | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | can | a muscle | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not push | can | cord | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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:world:031-skeleton-and-muscles.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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