Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 7
Skydivers spread out like a starfish to catch more air, and dive head first like an arrow to go faster.
Who acts: Skydivers · What happens: spread out, catch, dive, go · To what, where: more air, head
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 (Skydivers), 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 | Skydivers | skydiver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 spread | compound:prt |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 starfish | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 starfish | det |
| 6 | starfish | starfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spread | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 catch | mark |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spread | advcl |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 air | amod |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dive | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dive | cc |
| 13 | dive | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spread | conj |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dive | obj |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 dive | advmod |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 arrow | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 arrow | det |
| 18 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dive | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dive | advcl |
| 21 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 go | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | present | Skydivers | like a starfish | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | Skydivers not said here | more air | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dive | present | Skydivers not said here | head | like a arrow; first property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | Skydivers not said here | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:7.
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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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