Simple machines and how they help, sentence 18
Several pulleys together let you lift a heavy load with a smaller force but a longer pull of rope.
Who acts: Several pulleys, you · What happens: let, lift, pull · To what, where: you, heavy load, rope
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 (Several pulleys, you), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pulleys | amod |
| 2 | pulleys | pulley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 let | nsubj |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 let | advmod |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 load | det |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 load | amod |
| 9 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lift | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 force | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 force | det |
| 12 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 force | amod |
| 13 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lift | obl |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 pull | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pull | det |
| 16 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 pull | amod |
| 17 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 force | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rope | case |
| 19 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pull | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | Several pulleys | you | together property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lift | infinitive | you not said here | a heavy load | with a smaller force but a longer pull of rope | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | |||
| 3 | pull | rope | nom pull «act transitive»: of=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:18.
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): R5-strong ×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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