Swings and pendulums, sentence 0
A swing is a pendulum: a weight hanging from a point, going back and forth with its own steady rhythm.
Who acts: swing, weight · What happens: be, hang, go back · To what, where: pendulum, point
This is a sentence of the lesson «Swings and pendulums» of the physics 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 (swing, weight), 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 swing | det |
| 2 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pendulum | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pendulum | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pendulum | det |
| 5 | pendulum | pendulum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 pendulum | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 weight | det |
| 8 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pendulum | conj |
| 9 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 weight | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 point | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 point | det |
| 12 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hanging | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hanging | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forth | cc |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 back | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 rhythm | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 rhythm | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rhythm | amod |
| 21 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rhythm | amod |
| 22 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pendulum | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a swing | a pendulum and a weight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | a weight not said here | a point | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go back | gerund | a weight not said here | with swing's own steady rhythm | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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:physics:010-swings-and-pendulums.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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