Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 11
Ball bearings, tiny steel balls inside a wheel's hub, let the wheel turn on its axle with very little friction.
Who acts: Ball bearings, wheel · What happens: let, turn · To what, where: axle
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 (Ball bearings, wheel), 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 | Ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bearings | compound |
| 2 | bearings | bearing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 let | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 balls | punct |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 balls | amod |
| 5 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 balls | compound |
| 6 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bearings | appos |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 11 hub | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wheel | det |
| 9 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hub | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 wheel | case |
| 11 | hub | hub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 balls | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bearings | punct |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wheel | det |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | nsubj |
| 16 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 axle | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 axle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | axle | axle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 friction | case |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 little | advmod |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 friction | amod |
| 23 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | Ball bearings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | turn | infinitive | the wheel | wheel's axle | with little friction | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on axle=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.
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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): R5-strong ×2. 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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