The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 12
Bathroom scales measure how hard you press on them: the spring inside squashes more when you press harder.
Who acts: Bathroom scales, you, spring · What happens: measure, press, squash · To what, where: more
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 (Bathroom scales, you, spring), 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 | Bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scales | compound |
| 2 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 measure | nsubj |
| 3 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 press | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 press | nsubj |
| 7 | press | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 measure | ccomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 press | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 more | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spring | det |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 squashes | nsubj |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 12 spring | advmod |
| 14 | squashes | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 measure | parataxis |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 squashes | obj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 press | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 press | nsubj |
| 18 | press | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 squashes | advcl |
| 19 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 press | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 measure | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present | Bathroom scales | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | press | present | you | on scales = scale; hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | squash | present | the spring | more | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 4 | press | present | you | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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: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): 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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