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title: A screw is a ramp wrapped round a rod: each turn creeps it in a litt… — Wheels, axles, ramps and screws · tree and pragmatics
description: A screw is a ramp wrapped round a rod: each turn creeps it in a little way with a big push, and jar lids and bottle caps are screws too. Who acts: screw, turn, jar lids. A sentence of the lesson «Wheels, axles, ramps and screws» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 2

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A screw is a ramp wrapped round a rod: each turn creeps it in a little way with a big push, and jar lids and bottle caps are screws too.

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**Who acts:** screw, turn, jar lids · **What happens:** be, wrap, creep · **To what, where:** ramp, rod, little way, screws

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wheels, axles, ramps and screws» of the physics 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 (screw, turn, jar lids), 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:2
# text = A screw is a ramp wrapped round a rod: each turn creeps it in a little way with a big push, and jar lids and bottle caps are screws too.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	screw	screw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ramp	ramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	creeps	creep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	lids	lid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	screws	screw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a screw | a ramp and screws |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wrap** | participle |  | a ramp and screws *not said here* |  | a rod |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round rod=Destination |
| 3 | **creep** | present | each turn | ramp |  | a little way |  | with a big push | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | jar lids and bottle caps | screws |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×1. **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/).

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