Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 8
A dandelion seed is tiny and light, and its hairs make a big area for its weight, so it falls very slowly and the wind carries it far.
Who acts: dandelion seed, hairs, seed, wind · What happens: be, make, fall, carry · To what, where: big area, seed
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 (dandelion seed, hairs, seed, wind), 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 seed | det |
| 2 | dandelion | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seed | compound |
| 3 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tiny | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiny | cop |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 light | cc |
| 7 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tiny | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hairs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 make | nsubj |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tiny | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 area | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 area | amod |
| 15 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 weight | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 weight | nmod:poss |
| 18 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 falls | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 falls | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 falls | nsubj |
| 22 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | conj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 slowly | advmod |
| 24 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 22 falls | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 carries | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wind | det |
| 27 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carries | nsubj |
| 28 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 falls | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 carries | obj |
| 30 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 carries | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tiny | 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 | is | present | a dandelion seed | tiny property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a dandelion seed not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | present | seed's hairs | a big area | for seed's weight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent area=Product for weight=Asset | |||
| 4 | fall | present | seed | slowly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | carry | present | the wind | seed | far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:8.
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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