Balance and falling well, sentence 1
Spreading your feet and bending your knees makes that area wider and your centre lower, so you are much harder to knock over.
Who acts: Spreading, you · What happens: spread, bend, make, be, knock over · To what, where: feet, knees, area
This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» 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 (Spreading, 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 | Spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 makes | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Spreading | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bending | cc |
| 5 | bending | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Spreading | conj |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knees | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bending | obj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 area | det |
| 10 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | obj |
| 11 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lower | cc |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 centre | nmod:poss |
| 14 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lower | nsubj |
| 15 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 wider | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 harder | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 harder | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 harder | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 harder | cop |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 harder | advmod |
| 21 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 makes | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 knock | mark |
| 23 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 harder | advcl |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 knock | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | gerund | your feet | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bend | gerund | your knees | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Spreading | that area | wide property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset area=Product | |||
| 4 | is | present | you | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | knock over | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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:everyday:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:1.
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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