The Olympics and Paralympics, sentence 13
Carbon-fibre running blades spring back, but the athlete's muscles, balance and heart still do the work, and it takes years to learn to run on them.
Who acts: fibre running blades, muscles · What happens: spring back, do, take, learn, run · To what, where: work
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Olympics and Paralympics» 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 (fibre running blades, muscles), 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 | Carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fibre | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Carbon | punct |
| 3 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blades | compound |
| 4 | running | running | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blades | compound |
| 5 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spring | nsubj |
| 6 | spring | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 spring | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 athlete | det |
| 11 | athlete | athlete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 muscles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 athlete | case |
| 13 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 do | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 balance | punct |
| 15 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 muscles | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heart | cc |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 balance | conj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 do | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spring | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 work | det |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 takes | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 takes | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 takes | expl |
| 25 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | conj |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 takes | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 learn | mark |
| 28 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 takes | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 run | mark |
| 30 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 learn | xcomp |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 run | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spring | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring back | present | fibre running blades | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the athlete's muscles and balance and heart | the work | still | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | take | present | the athlete's muscles and balance and heart not said here | work | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | learn | to-infinitive | the athlete's muscles and balance and heart not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | run | to-infinitive | the athlete's muscles and balance and heart not said here | on muscles = muscle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory |
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:062-the-olympics-and-paralympics.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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