Swings and pendulums, sentence 13

Pushes that match something's own rhythm build up; a London footbridge wobbled on its first day in 2000 because walkers fell into step with its sway.

Who acts: Pushes, London footbridge, walkers · What happens: match, build up, wobble, fell · To what, where: own rhythm, 2000

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 (Pushes, London footbridge, walkers), 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	Pushes	push	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 match	nsubj
3	match	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pushes	acl:relcl
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 rhythm	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 something	case
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rhythm	amod
7	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 match	obj
8	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 match	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 build	compound:prt
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 footbridge	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 footbridge	det
12	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 footbridge	compound
13	footbridge	footbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wobbled	nsubj
14	wobbled	wobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Pushes	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 day	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 day	nmod:poss
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wobbled	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 2000	case
20	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 wobbled	obl
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 fell	mark
22	walkers	walker	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wobbled	advcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	25 step	case
25	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 sway	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sway	nmod:poss
28	sway	sway	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Pushes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	present	Pushes	something's own rhythm				vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhythm=Patient
2	build up	infinitive	Pushes not said here					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	wobble	past	a London footbridge		2000	day		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2000=Location
4	fell	past	walkers				into step; with footbridge's sway	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:physics:010-swings-and-pendulums.lesson:13.

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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