Speed: fast and slow, sentence 2
On a smooth train a ball you drop lands at your feet, because the ball was already moving along with the train and you.
Who acts: you, ball · What happens: drop, land, move along · To what, where: ball, smooth train
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 (you, ball), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 train | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 train | det |
| 3 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 train | amod |
| 4 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lands | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ball | det |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lands | nsubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 drop | nsubj |
| 8 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ball | acl:relcl |
| 9 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lands | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lands | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 moving | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ball | det |
| 16 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moving | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 moving | aux |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 moving | advmod |
| 19 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lands | advcl |
| 20 | along | along | ADV | _ | 19 moving | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 train | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 train | det |
| 23 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moving | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 you | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 train | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lands | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | you | a ball not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 2 | land | present | a ball | a smooth train | at your feet | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on train=Destination | |||
| 3 | move along | past · progressive | the ball | with the train; along property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:2.
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 ×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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