Simple machines and how they help, sentence 16
Rolling on wheels makes much less friction than dragging along the ground.
Who acts: Rolling · What happens: roll, make, drag · To what, where: wheels, less friction, ground
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 (Rolling), 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 | Rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 makes | csubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 wheels | case |
| 3 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rolling | obl |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 less | advmod |
| 6 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 friction | amod |
| 7 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 dragging | mark |
| 9 | dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 friction | advcl |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragging | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | gerund | wheels | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wheel=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Rolling | less friction | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friction=Product | ||||
| 3 | drag | gerund | Rolling not said here | the ground | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along ground=Location |
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:16.
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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