Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 9
Walking uphill, people lean forward to keep their weight over their feet.
Who acts: people · What happens: walk, lean, keep · To what, where: weight, 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 (people), 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 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lean | advcl |
| 2 | uphill | uphill | ADV | _ | 1 Walking | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lean | punct |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lean | nsubj |
| 5 | lean | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 lean | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lean | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 weight | nmod:poss |
| 10 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | people not said here | uphill property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lean | present | people | forward property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | people not said here | people's weight | people's feet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent weight=Theme over foot=Location |
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:9.
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.
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