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title: Mountain roads zigzag so they are longer but much less steep, and ca… — Wheels, axles, ramps and screws · tree and pragmatics
description: Mountain roads zigzag so they are longer but much less steep, and cars and walkers can climb without slipping or straining. Who acts: Mountain roads, roads, cars. A sentence of the lesson «Wheels, axles, ramps and screws» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 8

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Mountain roads zigzag so they are longer but much less steep, and cars and walkers can climb without slipping or straining.

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**Who acts:** Mountain roads, roads, cars · **What happens:** zigzag, be, climb, slip, strain

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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 (Mountain roads, roads, cars), 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:8
# text = Mountain roads zigzag so they are longer but much less steep, and cars and walkers can climb without slipping or straining.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	_	2	compound	_	_
2	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	zigzag	zigzag	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advcl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod
11	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	walkers	walker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	slipping	slip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	straining	strain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **zigzag** | present | Mountain roads |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | roads *= road* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | roads *= road* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | less *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **climb** | can | cars and walkers |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **slip** | gerund | cars and walkers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **strain** | gerund | cars and walkers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |

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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:8`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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