Speed: fast and slow, sentence 11

A quick pull on a tablecloth can leave the dishes behind because they are slow to start moving, but a slow pull drags them with it.

Who acts: quick pull, dishes, slow pull · What happens: leave, be, start, move, drag · To what, where: dishes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Speed: fast and slow» 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 (quick pull, dishes, slow pull), 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 pull	det
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pull	amod
3	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 tablecloth	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tablecloth	det
6	tablecloth	tablecloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	aux
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dishes	det
10	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leave	obj
11	behind	behind	ADV	_	8 leave	advmod
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 slow	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 slow	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 slow	cop
15	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leave	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 start	mark
17	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 slow	xcomp
18	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 start	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drags	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 drags	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pull	det
22	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pull	amod
23	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drags	nsubj
24	drags	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drags	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drags	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 leave	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	can	a quick pull on a tablecloth	the dishes	behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
2	is	present	dishes = dish		slow property	tree rules
3	start	to-infinitive	dishes = dish not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	move	gerund	dishes = dish not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	drag	present	a slow pull	dishes = dish	with tablecloth	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:036-speed-fast-and-slow.lesson:11.

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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