Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 6
Friction can be a helper or a nuisance.
Who acts: Friction · What happens: be · To what, where: helper
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), 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 | 5 helper | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 helper | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 helper | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 helper | det |
| 5 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 nuisance | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nuisance | det |
| 8 | nuisance | nuisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 helper | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 helper | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | Friction | a helper or a nuisance | tree rules |
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:6.
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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