Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 10
Dragging a heavy box across a floor is hard, but the same box on a trolley rolls easily.
Who acts: Dragging, same box · What happens: drag, be, roll · To what, where: heavy box, floor
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» 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 (Dragging, same box), 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 | Dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hard | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 3 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 box | amod |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dragging | obj |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dragging | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | cop |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rolls | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 rolls | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 box | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 box | amod |
| 14 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rolls | nsubj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 trolley | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 trolley | det |
| 17 | trolley | trolley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 box | nmod |
| 18 | rolls | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | conj |
| 19 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 rolls | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | 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 | drag | gerund | a heavy box | a floor | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Dragging | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | roll | present | the same box on a trolley | easily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:085-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels.lesson:10.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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