Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 23
The grooves in tyres push water away so the tyres can grip a wet road.
Who acts: grooves, tyres · What happens: push away, grip · To what, where: water, wet road
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 (grooves, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grooves | det |
| 2 | grooves | groove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 push | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 tyres | case |
| 4 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grooves | nmod |
| 5 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 push | obj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 push | advmod |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 12 grip | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tyres | det |
| 10 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grip | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 grip | aux |
| 12 | grip | grip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 push | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 14 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 road | amod |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grip | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 push | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push away | present | the grooves in tyres | water | away property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 2 | grip | can | the tyres | a wet road | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Experiencer |
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:23.
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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