Dances of the world and dancing at parties, sentence 11

Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again.

Who acts: Dancers · What happens: avoid, get, spin, spot, fix, whip · To what, where: eyes, one point, head

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» of the arts 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 (Dancers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 avoid	nsubj
2	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 avoid	xcomp
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 getting	xcomp
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 spinning	mark
6	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 getting	advcl
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 spotting	mark
8	spotting	spot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spinning	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 fixing	punct
10	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 spotting	parataxis
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fixing	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 point	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 point	nummod
15	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fixing	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 whipping	cc
17	whipping	whip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fixing	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whipping	obj
20	round	round	ADV	_	17 whipping	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 find	mark
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 whipping	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 find	obj
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 find	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 avoid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	present	Dancers					vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	gerund	Dancers not said here				dizzy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	spin	gerund	Dancers not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	spot	gerund	Dancers not said here					vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
5	fix	gerund		dancers's eyes	one point			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
6	whip	gerund		the head			round property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
7	find	to-infinitive		head		again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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, 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:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:11.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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