Speed: fast and slow, sentence 5

Speed is how far something goes in a certain time; 50 kilometres an hour means 50 kilometres in one hour at that speed.

Who acts: Speed, 50 kilometres · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: 50 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 (Speed, 50 kilometres), 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	Speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 goes	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 goes	advmod
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct
12	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 kilometres	nummod
13	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 means	nsubj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hour	det
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 goes	parataxis
17	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 kilometres	nummod
18	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 means	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hour	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hour	nummod
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 speed	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 speed	det
24	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hour	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 goes	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	Speed				time	far, go property	tree rules
2	mean	present	50 kilometres a hour	50 kilometres			hour		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Topic

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:5.

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): no change. 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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