The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 7
Let go of a ball swung on a string and it flies off in a straight line, not in a curve.
Who acts: you, Moon · What happens: let, go, swing, fly off · To what, where: ball, string, straight line
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, Moon), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ball | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| 6 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ball | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 string | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 string | det |
| 9 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swung | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flies | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flies | nsubj |
| 12 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 flies | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 line | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 line | det |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 line | amod |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flies | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 curve | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 curve | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 curve | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 curve | det |
| 22 | curve | curve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 line | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | of a ball | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of ball=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | swing | participle | a ball not said here | a string | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on string=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | fly off | present | Moon | a straight line and a curve | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Location |
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:7.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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