The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 13

In a lift that starts to go up, scales show more for a moment; in one that starts to go down, they show less.

Who acts: lift, scales, that · What happens: start, go up, show, go down · To what, where: more, less

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 (lift, scales, that), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 lift	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lift	det
3	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 starts	nsubj
5	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 starts	xcomp
8	up	up	PART	_	7 go	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lift	punct
10	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 show	nsubj
11	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 show	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 moment	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 moment	det
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 starts	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 starts	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 starts	nsubj
20	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 show	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 starts	xcomp
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 show	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 show	nsubj
26	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 show	parataxis
27	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 show	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	a lift				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go up	to-infinitive	a lift not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	show	present	scales	more	moment	in a lift	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Patient in lift=Topic
4	start	present	that			in one	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	go down	to-infinitive	that not said here			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	show	present	scales = scale	less			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent less=Recipient

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: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): 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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