Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 4
A puck slides a long way on ice because there is little friction to slow it.
Who acts: puck, little friction · What happens: slide, be, slow · To what, where: long way, ice, 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 (puck, little friction), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 puck | det |
| 2 | puck | puck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slides | nsubj |
| 3 | slides | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slides | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ice | case |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slides | obl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 is | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slides | advcl |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friction | amod |
| 13 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 slow | mark |
| 15 | slow | slow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 friction | acl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slow | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slides | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | present | a puck | a long way | ice | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | be | present | little friction | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slow | to-infinitive | little friction not said here | friction | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:4.
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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