Swings and pendulums, sentence 12
A swing is fastest at the bottom and slowest at the top, and a roller coaster swaps height and speed the same way.
Who acts: swing, roller coaster · What happens: be, swap · To what, where: bottom, top, height
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, roller coaster), 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 | 4 fastest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fastest | cop |
| 4 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fastest | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 slowest | cc |
| 9 | slowest | slow | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 fastest | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slowest | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 swaps | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 swaps | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 coaster | det |
| 16 | roller | roller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 coaster | compound |
| 17 | coaster | coaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swaps | nsubj |
| 18 | swaps | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fastest | conj |
| 19 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swaps | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 speed | cc |
| 21 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 height | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swaps | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fastest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a swing | the bottom | fast property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | a swing not said here | the top | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swap | present | a roller coaster | height and speed | the same way obl | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=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:physics:010-swings-and-pendulums.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): 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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