Simple machines and how they help, sentence 0
A simple machine is a tool that makes a job easier by changing how much force we need or which way we push.
Who acts: simple machine, tool, we · What happens: be, make, change, need, push · To what, where: tool, job, much force, way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Simple machines and how they help» 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 (simple machine, tool, we), 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 | 3 machine | det |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 machine | amod |
| 3 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tool | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tool | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tool | det |
| 6 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tool | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 job | det |
| 10 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | obj |
| 11 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 changing | mark |
| 13 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 makes | advcl |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 force | amod |
| 16 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changing | obj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 need | nsubj |
| 18 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 force | acl:relcl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 way | cc |
| 20 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 push | obj |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 push | nsubj |
| 23 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 need | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tool | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a simple machine | a tool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a tool | a job | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset job=Product | |||
| 3 | change | gerund | a tool not said here | much force | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient | ||||
| 4 | need | present | we | much force not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot force=Theme | ||||
| 5 | push | present | we | which way | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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:world:052-simple-machines.lesson:0.
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 ×2, 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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