Simple machines and how they help, sentence 13
A see-saw, scissors, a bottle opener and a wheelbarrow all use levers.
Who acts: see saw · What happens: use · To what, where: levers
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 (see saw), 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 | 4 saw | det |
| 2 | see | see | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 4 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 use | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 scissors | punct |
| 6 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 opener | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 opener | det |
| 9 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opener | compound |
| 10 | opener | opener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wheelbarrow | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wheelbarrow | det |
| 13 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opener | conj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 use | advmod |
| 15 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | levers | lever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 use | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 use | 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 | use | present | a see saw and scissors | levers | all property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=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: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): 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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