The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 0

Swing a ball on a string round your head: the string keeps pulling the ball towards your hand and bends its path into a circle.

Who acts: you, string · What happens: swing, keep, pull, bend · To what, where: ball, string, hand, path, circle

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them» 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 (you, string), 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	Swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Imp	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ball	det
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swing	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 string	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 string	det
6	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swing	obl
7	round	round	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swing	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 keeps	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 string	det
12	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keeps	nsubj
13	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Swing	parataxis
14	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 keeps	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ball	det
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulling	obj
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 hand	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulling	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bends	cc
21	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 keeps	conj
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 path	nmod:poss
23	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bends	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 circle	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 circle	det
26	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bends	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Swing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swing	imperative	you not said here	a ball	a string	round your head	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme on string=Source round head=Trajectory
2	keep	present	the string				tree rules
3	pull	gerund	the string not said here	the ball	your hand		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme towards hand=Destination
4	bend	present	the string not said here	string's path	a circle		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent path=Material into circle=Product

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:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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