Simple machines and how they help, sentence 10
A simple machine makes work easier by changing the size or the direction of a force.
Who acts: simple machine · What happens: make, change · To what, where: work, size
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), 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 | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 changing | mark |
| 8 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 makes | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 size | det |
| 10 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changing | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 direction | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 direction | det |
| 13 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 size | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 force | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 force | det |
| 16 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 direction | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | 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 | make | present | a simple machine | work | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset work=Product | |||
| 2 | change | gerund | a simple machine not said here | the size or the direction of a force | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient |
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:10.
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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