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title: Gears are toothed wheels that turn each other: a small gear driving… — Pulleys, gears and big machines · tree and pragmatics
description: Gears are toothed wheels that turn each other: a small gear driving a big one turns it slowly with a strong twist, a big one driving a small one spins it fast, and two gears side by side always turn opposite ways. Who acts: Gears, toothed wheels, small gear, big one. A sentence of the lesson «Pulley
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# Pulleys, gears and big machines, sentence 2

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Gears are toothed wheels that turn each other: a small gear driving a big one turns it slowly with a strong twist, a big one driving a small one spins it fast, and two gears side by side always turn opposite ways.

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**Who acts:** Gears, toothed wheels, small gear, big one, two gears · **What happens:** be, turn, drive, spin · **To what, where:** toothed wheels, each, big one, wheel, small one, opposite ways

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pulleys, gears and big machines» 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 (Gears, toothed wheels, small gear, big one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:035-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines.lesson:2
# text = Gears are toothed wheels that turn each other: a small gear driving a big one turns it slowly with a strong twist, a big one driving a small one spins it fast, and two gears side by side always turn opposite ways.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 035-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Gears	gear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	toothed	toothed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	6	obj	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	gears	gear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
39	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nmod
42	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	43	advmod	_	_
43	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Gears | toothed wheels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | toothed wheels | each |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | gerund | a small gear *not said here* | a big one |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |
| 4 | **turn** | present | a small gear | wheel |  |  |  | with a strong twist; slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **drive** | gerund | a big one *not said here* | a small one |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |
| 6 | **spin** | present | a big one | wheel |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **turn** | present | two gears | opposite ways |  |  |  | always *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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