Moving towards each other and moving apart, sentence 2
When they start at one place and go in opposite directions, the gap grows by the sum of the speeds in the same way.
Who acts: km, gap · What happens: start, go, grow, sum · To what, where: one place, opposite directions, speeds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving towards each other and moving apart» of the lessons 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 (km, gap), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 start | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 start | nsubj |
| 3 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 grows | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 place | nummod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 start | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 start | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 directions | case |
| 10 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 directions | amod |
| 11 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 start | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gap | det |
| 14 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grows | nsubj |
| 15 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 sum | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sum | det |
| 18 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grows | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 speeds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 speeds | det |
| 21 | speeds | speed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sum | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speeds | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | km | one place | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | present | km not said here | opposite directions | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the gap | by the sum of the speeds in the same way | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sum=Location | ||||
| 4 | sum | the speeds in the same way | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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:lessons:163-meeting-and-moving-apart.lesson:2.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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