Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 16
Heavy, pointed things dropped from a height really are dangerous, which is why building sites need hard hats.
Who acts: Heavy pointed things, building sites · What happens: drop, be, need · To what, where: Heavy pointed things, height, hard hats
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 (Heavy pointed things, building sites), 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 | Heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Heavy | punct |
| 3 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dangerous | nsubj |
| 5 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 things | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 height | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 height | det |
| 8 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | obl |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 dropped | advmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dangerous | cop |
| 11 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 need | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 why | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 why | cop |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 dangerous | parataxis |
| 16 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sites | compound |
| 17 | sites | site | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 need | nsubj |
| 18 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 why | acl:relcl |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hats | amod |
| 20 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 need | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | participle | Heavy pointed things not said here | a height | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from height=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Heavy pointed things | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | need | present | building sites | hard hats | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hat=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:16.
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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