--- title: Try turning the thin metal bar inside a door when the handle has com… — Wheels, axles, ramps and screws · tree and pragmatics description: Try turning the thin metal bar inside a door when the handle has come off: it is really hard, yet with the handle on it turns with one finger; the handle is a wheel and axle, and a big wheel turns a small axle with a much stronger twist. Who acts: you, handle, big wheel. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, handle, big wheel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:034-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws.lesson:0 # text = Try turning the thin metal bar inside a door when the handle has come off: it is really hard, yet with the handle on it turns with one finger; the handle is a wheel and axle, and a big wheel turns a small axle with a much stronger twist. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 034-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 inside inside ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 really really ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 yet yet ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 26 on on ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 axle axle NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 axle axle NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 with with ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 51 much much ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 53 amod _ _ 53 twist twist NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | yet | with the handle | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **turn** *not said to happen* | gerund | you *not said here* | the thin metal bar | | a door | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | | 3 | **come off** | present · perfect | the handle | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | handle | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **turn** | present | handle | | | | | with one finger | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | the handle | a wheel and axle | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **turn** | present | a big wheel | a small axle | | | | with a stronger twist | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent axle=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:physics:034-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Levers: lifting heavy things with a li…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push/15/) - next →: [Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/34-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/34-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws/)