The Olympics and Paralympics, sentence 15
The Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy, were in February 2026; skaters balance using the inner ear, eyes and strong leg and core muscles.
Who acts: Winter Olympics, skaters · What happens: be, balance, use · To what, where: inner ear
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 (Winter Olympics, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Olympics | det |
| 2 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Olympics | compound |
| 3 | Olympics | Olympics | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 were | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Milan | case |
| 5 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Olympics | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Cortina | cc |
| 7 | Cortina | Cortina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Milan | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Italy | punct |
| 9 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Milan | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Olympics | punct |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 February | case |
| 13 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 were | obl |
| 14 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 February | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 balance | punct |
| 16 | skaters | skater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 balance | nsubj |
| 17 | balance | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 were | conj |
| 18 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 balance | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ear | det |
| 20 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ear | amod |
| 21 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 using | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eyes | punct |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ear | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 leg | cc |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 leg | amod |
| 26 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eyes | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 muscles | cc |
| 28 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 muscles | compound |
| 29 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 leg | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 were | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina and Italy | february | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | balance | present | skaters | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | use | gerund | the inner ear and eyes and strong leg and core muscles | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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:medicine:062-the-olympics-and-paralympics.lesson:15.
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): R8-pos-agree ×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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