Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 10

A sycamore seed's wing makes it spin, and the spinning slows its fall, giving the wind time to carry it away from its parent tree.

Who acts: wing, seed, spinning · What happens: make, spin, slow, give, carry · To what, where: seed, fall

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» 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 (wing, seed, spinning), 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	3 seed	det
2	sycamore	sycamore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seed	compound
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wing	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 seed	case
5	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slows	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 slows	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spinning	det
12	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slows	nsubj
13	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 makes	conj
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fall	nmod:poss
15	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slows	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 giving	punct
17	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 slows	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	compound
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 carry	mark
22	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 time	acl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carry	obj
24	away	away	ADV	_	22 carry	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 tree	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tree	nmod:poss
27	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tree	compound
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 away	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 makes	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	make	present	a sycamore seed's wing	seed			tree rules
2	spin	infinitive	seed not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	slow	present	the spinning	seed's fall			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fall=Patient
4	give	gerund	the spinning not said here		time		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	carry	to-infinitive	the spinning not said here	seed		away property	vn carry-11.4 «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:003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.lesson:10.

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): 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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