Speed: fast and slow, sentence 15

A passenger plane flies at about 900 kilometres an hour, many times faster than a car, yet high in the sky it is so far away that it seems to crawl.

Who acts: passenger plane, car, it · What happens: fly, be, seem, crawl · To what, where: 900 kilometres

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 (passenger plane, car, it), 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 plane	det
2	passenger	passenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plane	compound
3	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flies	nsubj
4	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 kilometres	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 900	advmod
7	900	900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 kilometres	nummod
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flies	obl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 faster	punct
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 times	amod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 faster	obl:unmarked
14	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 flies	parataxis
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 car	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 car	det
17	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 faster	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 high	punct
19	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 high	cc
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 faster	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 sky	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sky	det
23	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 high	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 away	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 away	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 far	advmod
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 away	advmod
28	away	away	ADV	_	20 high	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 seems	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seems	nsubj
31	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 away	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 crawl	mark
33	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seems	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flies	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly	present	a passenger plane	900 kilometres a hour		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Location
2	is	present	car		away, far property	tree rules
3	seem	present	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	crawl	to-infinitive				vn run-51.3.2 «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:036-speed-fast-and-slow.lesson:15.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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