Simple machines and how they help, sentence 2
A lever is a stiff bar that turns around a point called the pivot.
Who acts: lever, stiff bar, point · What happens: be, turn, call · To what, where: stiff bar, point, pivot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lever, stiff bar, point), 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 lever | det |
| 2 | lever | lever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bar | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bar | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bar | det |
| 5 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bar | amod |
| 6 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 turns | nsubj |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bar | acl:relcl |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 point | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 point | det |
| 11 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | obl |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 point | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pivot | det |
| 14 | pivot | pivot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bar | 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 | is a | present | a lever | a stiff bar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | a stiff bar | a point | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around point=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a point not said here | the pivot | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pivot=Recipient |
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:2.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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