Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 18
Holding your breath does help you float, because air in your lungs makes you lighter for your size.
Who acts: Holding, you, air · What happens: hold, help, float, make · To what, where: breath, you
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 (Holding, you, air), 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 | Holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 help | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 breath | nmod:poss |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 makes | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 makes | mark |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 makes | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 lungs | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lungs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 air | nmod |
| 14 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 makes | obj |
| 16 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 makes | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 size | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 size | nmod:poss |
| 19 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lighter | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | your breath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | present · do-support | Holding | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | float | infinitive | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | present | air in your lungs | you | light property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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:18.
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. 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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