Simple machines and how they help, sentence 5
Walking up a long gentle ramp is easier than climbing a steep ladder, but the path is longer.
Who acts: Walking, path · What happens: walk, be, climb · To what, where: long gentle ramp, steep ladder
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 (Walking, path), 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 | Walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 easier | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 ramp | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ramp | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ramp | amod |
| 5 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ramp | amod |
| 6 | ramp | ramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 easier | cop |
| 8 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 climbing | mark |
| 10 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 easier | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ladder | det |
| 12 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ladder | amod |
| 13 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 climbing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 longer | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 longer | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 path | det |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 longer | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 longer | cop |
| 19 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 easier | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 easier | 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 | walk | gerund | a long gentle ramp | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up ramp=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Walking | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb | gerund | Walking not said here | a steep ladder | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the path | long property | tree rules |
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:5.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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