Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 18
Friction helps tyres, shoes and brakes to grip.
Who acts: Friction, tyres · What happens: help, grip · To what, where: tyres
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 (Friction, tyres), 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 | Friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 helps | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shoes | punct |
| 5 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tyres | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brakes | cc |
| 7 | brakes | brake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tyres | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 grip | mark |
| 9 | grip | grip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 helps | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Friction | tyres and shoes and brakes | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tyre=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grip | to-infinitive | tyres and shoes and brakes not said here | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: 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:085-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels.lesson:18.
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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