Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 2
Nature uses the same trick: a dandelion seed hangs under its fluffy parachute, and a sycamore seed spins down like a little helicopter.
Who acts: Nature, dandelion seed, sycamore seed · What happens: use, hang, spin down · To what, where: same trick, fluffy parachute, little helicopter
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 (Nature, dandelion seed, sycamore seed), 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 | Nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uses | nsubj |
| 2 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trick | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trick | amod |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uses | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 hangs | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 seed | det |
| 8 | dandelion | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seed | compound |
| 9 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hangs | nsubj |
| 10 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 uses | parataxis |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 parachute | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 parachute | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 parachute | amod |
| 14 | parachute | parachute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hangs | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spins | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spins | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 seed | det |
| 18 | sycamore | sycamore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seed | compound |
| 19 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spins | nsubj |
| 20 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hangs | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 spins | advmod |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 spins | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 helicopter | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 helicopter | amod |
| 25 | helicopter | helicopter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spins | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Nature | the same trick | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hang | present | a dandelion seed | seed's fluffy parachute | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under parachute=Location | ||||
| 3 | spin down | present | a sycamore seed | a little helicopter | down property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:2.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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