Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 22
Ball bearings help a wheel turn smoothly on its axle.
Who acts: Ball bearings, wheel · What happens: help, turn · To what, where: wheel, 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 | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wheel | det |
| 5 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obj |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 help | xcomp |
| 7 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 6 turn | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 axle | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 axle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | axle | axle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | 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 | Ball bearings | a wheel | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wheel=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | infinitive | a wheel not said here | wheel's axle | smoothly property | 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.
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:22.
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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