Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 3

Landing safely is about stopping slowly: an egg dropped on a pillow survives, but on the hard floor it stops in an instant and cracks.

Who acts: egg · What happens: land, be, stop, drop, survive, crack · To what, where: egg, pillow, hard floor

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 (egg), 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	Landing	land	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 is	nsubj
2	safely	safely	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Landing	advmod
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 stopping	mark
5	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 is	obl
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 stopping	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 survives	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 egg	det
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 survives	nsubj
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 egg	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 pillow	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pillow	det
13	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dropped	obl
14	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 is	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stops	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 stops	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 floor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
19	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 floor	amod
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stops	obl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stops	nsubj
22	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 survives	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 instant	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 instant	det
25	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stops	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cracks	cc
27	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 stops	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	land	gerund				safely property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	gerund				slowly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	drop	participle		a egg not said here	a pillow		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on pillow=Trajectory
5	survive	present	a egg				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stop	present	egg		the hard floor	in a instant	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location
7	crack	present	egg not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP 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:3.

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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