Simple machines and how they help, sentence 1
The lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley and the ramp are simple machines.
Who acts: lever · What happens: be · To what, where: simple machines
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 (lever), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lever | det |
| 2 | lever | lever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 machines | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wheel | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheel | det |
| 5 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lever | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 axle | cc |
| 7 | axle | axle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wheel | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulley | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pulley | det |
| 10 | pulley | pulley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lever | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ramp | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ramp | det |
| 13 | ramp | ramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lever | conj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 machines | cop |
| 15 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 machines | amod |
| 16 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 machines | 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 | the lever and the wheel and axle and the pulley and the ramp | simple machines | 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:052-simple-machines.lesson:1.
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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