Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 9

Toast falling off a table often turns about half a turn before it lands, so it lands butter side down quite often from table height; a scientist tested this with lots of toast.

Who acts: Toast, scientist · What happens: fall off, turn about, land, land down, test · To what, where: table, turn, butter side, this

This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» 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 (Toast, scientist), 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	Toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turns	nsubj
2	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Toast	acl
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 falling	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 table	det
5	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falling	obl
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 turns	advmod
7	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 half	advmod
9	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	11 turn	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 turn	det
11	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turns	obj
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 lands	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lands	nsubj
14	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turns	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lands	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 lands	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lands	nsubj
18	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turns	parataxis
19	butter	but	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 side	compound
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lands	obj
21	down	down	ADV	_	18 lands	advmod
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 often	advmod
23	often	often	ADV	_	18 lands	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 height	case
25	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 height	compound
26	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 often	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 tested	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 scientist	det
29	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tested	nsubj
30	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turns	parataxis
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 tested	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 lots	case
33	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tested	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 toast	case
35	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lots	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turns	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall off	gerund	Toast not said here	a table		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	turn about	present	Toast	half turn	often property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme turn=Result
3	land	present	toast			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	land down	present	toast	butter side	down, often property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme side=Destination
5	test	past	a scientist	this	with lots of toast	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme

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:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:9.

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, R7-rel-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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