Balance and falling well, sentence 11
Spinning round fast confuses the balance organ in your inner ear, and that is why you feel dizzy afterwards.
Who acts: Spinning, that, you · What happens: spin round, confuse, be, feel · To what, where: balance organ, inner ear
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 (Spinning, that, 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 | Spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 confuses | csubj |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Spinning | advmod |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Spinning | advmod |
| 4 | confuses | confuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 organ | det |
| 6 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 organ | compound |
| 7 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confuses | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ear | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ear | nmod:poss |
| 10 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ear | amod |
| 11 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 organ | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 why | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 why | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 why | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 why | cop |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 confuses | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 feel | nsubj |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 why | advcl |
| 19 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 18 feel | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confuses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin round | gerund | fast, round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | confuse | present | Spinning | the balance organ | your inner ear | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organ=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | you | afterwards, dizzy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:11.
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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