Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets, sentence 13
Rubbing your hands together makes them warm because friction turns motion into heat.
Who acts: Rubbing, friction · What happens: rub, make, turn · To what, where: hands, motion, heat
This is a sentence of the lesson «Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets» 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 (Rubbing, friction), 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 | Rubbing | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 makes | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rubbing | obj |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 1 Rubbing | advmod |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 makes | obj |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 turns | mark |
| 9 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turns | nsubj |
| 10 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | advcl |
| 11 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turns | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 heat | case |
| 13 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turns | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | gerund | your hands | together property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Rubbing | hands = hand | warm property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 3 | turn | present | friction | motion | heat | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent motion=Theme into heat=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:world:051-forces.lesson:13.
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. 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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