Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere, sentence 1
You can feel the same push back when a garden hose wriggles as the water rushes out, and a squid uses it to shoot backwards by squirting water from a tube.
Who acts: You, garden hose, water, squid · What happens: feel, wriggle, rush out, use, shoot, squirt · To what, where: same push, water, tube
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» 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, garden hose, water, squid), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | aux |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 push | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 push | amod |
| 6 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 feel | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 wriggles | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hose | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hose | compound |
| 11 | hose | hose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wriggles | nsubj |
| 12 | wriggles | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | advcl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 rushes | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rushes | nsubj |
| 16 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wriggles | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 rushes | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 uses | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 uses | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 squid | det |
| 21 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 uses | nsubj |
| 22 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 uses | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 shoot | mark |
| 25 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 uses | advcl |
| 26 | backwards | backward | ADV | _ | 25 shoot | advmod |
| 27 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 28 squirting | mark |
| 28 | squirting | squirt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 shoot | advcl |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 squirting | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 tube | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tube | det |
| 32 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 squirting | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | You | the same push | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent push=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wriggle | present | a garden hose | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rush out | present | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | use | present | a squid | water | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shoot | to-infinitive | a squid not said here | backward property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | squirt | gerund | a squid not said here | water | a tube | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=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:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:1.
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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