Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 12

A penny dropped from a skyscraper slows down in the air and tumbles; it would sting but would not kill, though dropping heavier things from a height can be deadly.

Who acts: penny, dropping · What happens: drop, slow down, tumble, sting, not kill, be · To what, where: penny, skyscraper, air, heavier things, height

This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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 (penny, dropping), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 penny	det
2	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slows	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 penny	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 skyscraper	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 skyscraper	det
6	skyscraper	skyscraper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obl
7	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 slows	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 air	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slows	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tumbles	cc
13	tumbles	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 slows	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sting	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sting	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sting	aux
17	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 slows	parataxis
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 kill	cc
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 kill	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 kill	advmod
21	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sting	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dropping	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 deadly	mark
24	dropping	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 deadly	csubj
25	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 things	amod
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dropping	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 height	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 height	det
29	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dropping	obl
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 deadly	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 deadly	cop
32	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kill	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	participle		a penny not said here	a skyscraper		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from skyscraper=Trajectory
2	slow down	present	a penny		the air		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	tumble	present	a penny not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	sting	would	penny				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
5	not kill	would	penny not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	drop	gerund		heavier things	a height		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from height=Destination
7	is	can	dropping			deadly property	tree rules

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:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:12.

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 ×1, 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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