Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 13
A quick stop needs a huge force, and a slow stop needs a much smaller one, which is why a pillow saves an egg.
Who acts: quick stop, slow stop, pillow · What happens: need, be, save · To what, where: huge force, smaller one, egg
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 (quick stop, slow stop, pillow), 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 stop | det |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stop | amod |
| 3 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 force | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 force | amod |
| 7 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 needs | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 needs | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stop | det |
| 11 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stop | amod |
| 12 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | nsubj |
| 13 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 needs | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 smaller | advmod |
| 16 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 why | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 why | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 why | cop |
| 21 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 saves | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pillow | det |
| 23 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saves | nsubj |
| 24 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | acl:relcl |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 egg | det |
| 26 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saves | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | a quick stop | a huge force | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot force=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a slow stop | a smaller one | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | save | present | a pillow | a egg | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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: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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