Gases all around: breath and balloons, sentence 6
Helium atoms are so tiny they slip through the rubber skin of a party balloon, so it shrinks in a few days.
Who acts: Helium atoms, atoms, balloon · What happens: be, slip, shrink · To what, where: rubber skin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gases all around: breath and balloons» of the chemistry 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 (Helium atoms, atoms, balloon), 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 | Helium | helium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 atoms | compound |
| 2 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tiny | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiny | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 tiny | advmod |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slip | nsubj |
| 7 | slip | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiny | parataxis |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 10 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slip | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 balloon | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 balloon | det |
| 14 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 balloon | compound |
| 15 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shrinks | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 shrinks | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shrinks | nsubj |
| 19 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slip | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 days | det |
| 22 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 days | amod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shrinks | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tiny | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Helium atoms | tiny property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slip | present | atoms = atom | the rubber skin of a party balloon | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | shrink | present | balloon | day | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:chemistry:020-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons.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 ×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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/6/