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title: Old lorries without power steering had huge steering wheels to give… — Wheels, axles, ramps and screws · tree and pragmatics
description: Old lorries without power steering had huge steering wheels to give the driver more turning force. Who acts: Old lorries. A sentence of the lesson «Wheels, axles, ramps and screws» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 6

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Old lorries without power steering had huge steering wheels to give the driver more turning force.

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**Who acts:** Old lorries · **What happens:** have, give, turn · **To what, where:** huge steering wheels, turning force, driver

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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 (Old lorries), 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:6
# text = Old lorries without power steering had huge steering wheels to give the driver more turning force.
# 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	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lorries	lorry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	steering	steering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	steering	steering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	iobj	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	amod	_	_
16	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **have** | past | Old lorries without power steering | huge steering wheels |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | Old lorries without power steering *not said here* | turning force | the driver |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient force=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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: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): 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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