Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets, sentence 14
Oil and water on a surface reduce friction, which is why wet floors are slippery.
Who acts: Oil, friction · What happens: reduce, be · To what, where: friction
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 (Oil, 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 | Oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reduce | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 water | cc |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oil | conj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 surface | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 surface | det |
| 6 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oil | nmod |
| 7 | reduce | reduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reduce | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slippery | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 slippery | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 slippery | cop |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 slippery | advmod |
| 13 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 floors | amod |
| 14 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slippery | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 slippery | cop |
| 16 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friction | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reduce | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | present | Oil on a surface and water | friction | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer friction=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | friction | slippery property | 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:world:051-forces.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): 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.
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