Balance and falling well, sentence 13
Your eyes help you balance, so balancing is harder with your eyes closed.
Who acts: eyes, you, balancing · What happens: help, balance, be, close · To what, where: you
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 (eyes, you, balancing), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | balance | balance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 help | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 harder | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 harder | advmod |
| 8 | balancing | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 harder | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 harder | cop |
| 10 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 help | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 closed | mark |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 closed | nsubj |
| 14 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 harder | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | 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 | help | present | Your eyes | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | balance | infinitive | you not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | balancing | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | close | participle | your eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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:13.
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): R8-pos-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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