Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 9
A wheel makes moving heavy things much easier, because rolling makes far less friction than sliding.
Who acts: wheel, heavy things, rolling · What happens: make, move, slide · 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 (wheel, heavy things, rolling), 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 wheel | det |
| 2 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 things | acl |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 easier | nsubj |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 easier | advmod |
| 8 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 makes | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 makes | mark |
| 11 | rolling | rolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | nsubj |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | advcl |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 less | advmod |
| 14 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 friction | amod |
| 15 | friction | friction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | obj |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 sliding | mark |
| 17 | sliding | slide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 makes | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | a wheel | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | heavy things not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | present | rolling | less friction | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friction=Product | ||||
| 4 | slide | gerund | rolling not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:9.
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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