Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating, sentence 16

Falling from a crouch is a shorter drop than from standing; skaters learn to roll onto the shoulder or slide on knee pads instead of putting a stiff arm out.

Who acts: Falling, shorter drop, skaters · What happens: fall, be, stand, learn, roll, slide · To what, where: crouch, shorter drop, shoulder, knee pads, stiff arm

This is a sentence of the lesson «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» of the medicine 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 (Falling, shorter drop, skaters), 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	Falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 drop	csubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 crouch	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crouch	det
4	crouch	crouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Falling	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drop	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drop	det
7	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 drop	amod
8	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 standing	mark
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 standing	case
11	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 drop	acl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 learn	punct
13	skaters	skater	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 learn	nsubj
14	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drop	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 roll	mark
16	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 learn	xcomp
17	onto	onto	ADP	_	19 shoulder	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shoulder	det
19	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 roll	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 slide	cc
21	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 roll	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 pads	case
23	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pads	compound
24	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 slide	obl
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 putting	mark
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 roll	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 arm	det
29	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 arm	amod
30	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 putting	obj
31	out	out	ADV	_	27 putting	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund			a crouch		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from crouch=Initial_Location
2	is a	present	Falling	a shorter drop			tree rules
3	stand	gerund	a shorter drop not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	learn	present	skaters				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	roll	to-infinitive	skaters not said here		the shoulder		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto shoulder=Trajectory
6	slide	infinitive	skaters not said here		knee pads		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pad=Trajectory
7	put	gerund	skaters not said here	a stiff arm		out property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal

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:medicine:044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.lesson:16.

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 ×2. 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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