--- title: A wheel and axle is a big wheel fixed to a thin rod; turning the big… — Simple machines and how they help · tree and pragmatics description: A wheel and axle is a big wheel fixed to a thin rod; turning the big wheel a long way turns the axle with a strong force, as in a door knob or a steering wheel. Who acts: wheel, turning. 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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 (wheel, turning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:052-simple-machines.lesson:6 # text = A wheel and axle is a big wheel fixed to a thin rod; turning the big wheel a long way turns the axle with a strong force, as in a door knob or a steering wheel. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 052-simple-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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 axle axle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 15 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 axle axle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 knob knob NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 steering steering NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a wheel and axle | a big wheel | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fix** | participle | | a big wheel *not said here* | | | | to a thin rod | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to rod=Co-Patient | | 3 | **turn** | gerund | | the big wheel | | | | a long way *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | present | turning | the axle | | | | with a strong force | 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:world:052-simple-machines.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Simple machines and how they help, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/5/) - next →: [Simple machines and how they help, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/)