Simple machines and how they help, sentence 4
Machines do not give us free work: to use less force we must push over a longer distance.
Who acts: Machines, we · What happens: not give, use, push · To what, where: free work, us, less force
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 (Machines, we), 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 | Machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 work | amod |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 use | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 use | mark |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 work | acl |
| 11 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 force | amod |
| 12 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 use | obj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 push | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 push | aux |
| 15 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 force | acl:relcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 distance | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 18 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 distance | amod |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 push | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | present · do-support | Machines | free work | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient work=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | Machines not said here | less force | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient | ||||
| 3 | push | must | we | less force not said here | over a longer distance | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent force=Theme over distance=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:4.
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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