Speed: fast and slow, sentence 9
A ball dropped on a smooth train lands at your feet because it was already moving with the train.
Who acts: ball · What happens: drop, land, move · To what, where: ball, smooth train, feet
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ball | det |
| 2 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lands | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ball | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 train | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 train | det |
| 6 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 train | amod |
| 7 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 8 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lands | obl |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 moving | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 moving | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 moving | aux |
| 15 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 moving | advmod |
| 16 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 lands | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 train | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 train | det |
| 19 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moving | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | 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 | drop | participle | a ball not said here | a smooth train | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on train=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | land | present | a ball | your feet | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | move | past · progressive | ball | with the train | 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:9.
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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