Balance and falling well, sentence 12
A tightrope walker carries a long pole because it helps her keep her centre of gravity over the rope.
Who acts: tightrope walker, walker, organ · What happens: carry, help, keep · To what, where: long pole, centre, rope
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 (tightrope walker, walker, organ), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 walker | det |
| 2 | tightrope | tightrope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walker | compound |
| 3 | walker | walker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | nsubj |
| 4 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pole | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pole | amod |
| 7 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | obj |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 helps | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 helps | nsubj |
| 10 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carries | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 keep | nsubj |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 helps | xcomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 centre | nmod:poss |
| 14 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gravity | case |
| 16 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 centre | nmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 rope | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rope | det |
| 19 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carries | 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 | carry | present | a tightrope walker | a long pole | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | present | walker | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | organ | organ's centre of gravity | the rope | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent centre=Theme over rope=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:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:12.
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 ×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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