Simple machines and how they help, sentence 15
A wheel and axle turns a small force on a big wheel into a stronger turn on the thin axle.
Who acts: wheel · What happens: turn · To what, where: small force, big wheel
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 (wheel), 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 | 2 wheel | det |
| 2 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 axle | cc |
| 4 | axle | axle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wheel | conj |
| 5 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 force | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 force | amod |
| 8 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 wheel | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wheel | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wheel | amod |
| 12 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 force | nmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 turn | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 turn | det |
| 15 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 turn | amod |
| 16 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 axle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 axle | det |
| 19 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 axle | amod |
| 20 | axle | axle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turns | 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 | turn | present | a wheel and axle | a small force | a big wheel | into a stronger turn on the thin axle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent force=Theme into turn=Source on wheel=Trajectory |
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:15.
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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