Wind and weather, sentence 13
A plane's wings turn air downwards and make the air over the top flow faster with lower pressure, so the air pushes the wings up; the faster the plane goes, the more lift (upward push) its wings make, so it races along the runway first.
Who acts: wings, air, plane · What happens: turn, make, flow, push up, go, race · To what, where: air, top, wings, more lift, runway
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wind and weather» 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 (wings, air, plane), 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 plane | det |
| 2 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 plane | case |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obj |
| 7 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turn | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flow | obl |
| 15 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | xcomp |
| 16 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 flow | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 pressure | case |
| 18 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 pressure | amod |
| 19 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flow | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pushes | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 pushes | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 air | det |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pushes | nsubj |
| 24 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wings | det |
| 26 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pushes | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 pushes | compound:prt |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 goes | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 faster | det |
| 30 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 goes | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 plane | det |
| 32 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 goes | nsubj |
| 33 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 pushes | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 goes | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 lift | det |
| 36 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 lift | amod |
| 37 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 make | obj |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 push | punct |
| 39 | upward | upward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 push | amod |
| 40 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lift | appos |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 push | punct |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 wings | nmod:poss |
| 43 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 make | nsubj |
| 44 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 goes | advcl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 races | punct |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 races | advmod |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 races | nsubj |
| 48 | races | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 pushes | conj |
| 49 | along | along | ADP | _ | 51 runway | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 runway | det |
| 51 | runway | runway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 races | obl |
| 52 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 48 races | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | a plane's wings | air | downwards property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | a plane's wings not said here | the air | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flow | infinitive | the air not said here | the top | with lower pressure; fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over top=Location | |||
| 4 | push up | present | the air | the wings | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | present | the plane | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | make | present | air's wings | the more lift | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lift=Product | ||||
| 7 | race | present | air | the runway | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along runway=Trajectory |
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:015-wind-and-weather.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): R8-pos-agree ×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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