The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 18

A roller coaster car stays on the track upside down in a loop because it is going fast enough that the track has to keep pushing it round.

Who acts: coaster car, car, track · What happens: stay, go, have, keep, push · To what, where: track, upside

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 (coaster car, car, track), 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	4 car	det
2	roller	roller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coaster	compound
3	coaster	coaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 car	compound
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 upside	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 track	det
8	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	obl
9	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	obl
10	down	down	ADV	_	5 stays	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 loop	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 loop	det
13	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	obl
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stays	advcl
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 going	advmod
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 going	advmod
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 has	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 track	det
22	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 keep	mark
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 has	xcomp
26	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 keep	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pushing	obj
28	round	round	ADV	_	26 pushing	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay	present	a coaster car	the track	upside	in a loop; down property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on upside=Location
2	go	present · progressive	car			enough, fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	the track				tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	the track not said here				tree rules
5	push	gerund	the track not said here	track		round property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:18.

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 ×4. 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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