Simple machines and how they help, sentence 7
Wheels also roll, which makes much less friction than dragging.
Who acts: Wheels · What happens: roll, make, drag · To what, where: less friction
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 (Wheels), 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 | Wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roll | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 roll | advmod |
| 3 | roll | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 makes | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 roll | acl:relcl |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 less | advmod |
| 8 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 friction | amod |
| 9 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 makes | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 dragging | mark |
| 11 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 makes | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roll | 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 | roll | present | Wheels | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | less friction | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friction=Product | |||||
| 3 | drag | gerund | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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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