Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 21
Rolling makes much less friction than sliding, which is why wheels help.
Who acts: Rolling, wheels · What happens: make, slide, be, help · To what, where: less friction
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 (Rolling, 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 | Rolling | rolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 less | advmod |
| 4 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 friction | amod |
| 5 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 sliding | mark |
| 7 | sliding | slide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 less | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 is | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | parataxis |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 help | advmod |
| 12 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 help | nsubj |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 is | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Rolling | less friction | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friction=Product | ||||
| 2 | slide | gerund | Rolling not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | help | present | wheels | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:21.
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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