Balance and falling well, sentence 8
Standing with your feet apart gives you a wider base and better balance.
Who acts: Standing · What happens: stand, give · To what, where: wider base, 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 (Standing), 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 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gives | csubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 feet | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 feet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Standing | obl |
| 5 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 6 gives | advmod |
| 6 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 gives | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 base | det |
| 9 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 base | amod |
| 10 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gives | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 balance | cc |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 balance | amod |
| 13 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 base | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | with your feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | present | Standing | a wider base and better balance | you | apart property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient base=Theme |
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:8.
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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