Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 17
Sand, mats and the foam in a helmet soften a blow by letting you stop more slowly.
Who acts: Sand, you · What happens: soften, let, stop · To what, where: blow, you
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 (Sand, you), 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 | Sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soften | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mats | punct |
| 3 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sand | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 soften | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foam | det |
| 6 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soften | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 helmet | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 helmet | det |
| 9 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foam | nmod |
| 10 | soften | soften | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blow | det |
| 12 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soften | obj |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 letting | mark |
| 14 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 soften | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 letting | obj |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 letting | xcomp |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 slowly | advmod |
| 18 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 16 stop | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 soften | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soften | infinitive | Sand and mats | a blow | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | gerund | Sand and mats not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | infinitive | you not said here | slowly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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:17.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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