Swings and pendulums, sentence 14
A wrecking ball gets its power from its height and weight, and it can swing back, so the area is cleared of people.
Who acts: wrecking ball, ball · What happens: get, swing back, clear · To what, where: power, height, area
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 (wrecking ball, ball), 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 | 3 ball | det |
| 2 | wrecking | wrecking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ball | compound |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 power | nmod:poss |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 height | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 height | nmod:poss |
| 9 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 weight | cc |
| 11 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 height | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swing | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 swing | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 swing | aux |
| 16 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gets | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 swing | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cleared | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 cleared | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 area | det |
| 21 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cleared | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 cleared | aux:pass |
| 23 | cleared | clear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gets | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cleared | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a wrecking ball | ball's power | ball's height and weight | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent power=Theme from height=Source | |||
| 2 | swing back | can | ball | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | clear | present · passive | the area | of people | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of people=Source |
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:14.
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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