Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 14
On ice, small flat steps with your weight over your feet help stop a fall.
Who acts: small flat steps · What happens: help, stop · To what, where: ice, fall
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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 (small flat steps), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 ice | case |
| 2 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ice | punct |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steps | amod |
| 5 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steps | amod |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 help | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 weight | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 weight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steps | nmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 weight | nmod |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fall | det |
| 16 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stop | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | small flat steps with your weight over your feet | ice | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | small flat steps with your weight over your feet not said here | a fall | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fall=Eventuality |
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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:14.
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. 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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