Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 8
You stay balanced when your centre of gravity is above your feet.
Who acts: You · What happens: stay, be · To what, where: feet
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | balanced | balanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stay | xcomp |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 above | mark |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 centre | nmod:poss |
| 6 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 above | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gravity | case |
| 8 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 centre | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 feet | cop |
| 10 | above | above | ADP | _ | 2 stay | advcl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 above | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | You | balanced property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | your feet | tree rules |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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