Balance and falling well, sentence 9
Bending your knees lowers your centre of gravity and makes you steadier.
Who acts: Bending · What happens: bend, lower, make · To what, where: knees, centre, 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 (Bending), 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 | Bending | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 lowers | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 knees | nmod:poss |
| 3 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bending | obj |
| 4 | lowers | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 centre | nmod:poss |
| 6 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lowers | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gravity | case |
| 8 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 centre | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 makes | cc |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lowers | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | steadier | steadier | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lowers | 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 | bend | gerund | your knees | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material | |||||
| 2 | lower | present | Bending | your centre of gravity | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centre=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | Bending not said here | you | steadier property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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:9.
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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