Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere, sentence 8
Most of a rocket is fuel, and its stages drop away as they empty.
Who acts: Most, stages · What happens: be, drop away, empty · To what, where: fuel
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 (Most, stages), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 fuel | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 rocket | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rocket | det |
| 4 | rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fuel | cop |
| 6 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drop | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drop | cc |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stages | nmod:poss |
| 10 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drop | nsubj |
| 11 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fuel | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 drop | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 empty | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 empty | nsubj |
| 15 | empty | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 drop | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fuel | 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 a | present | Most of a rocket | fuel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drop away | present | rocket's stages | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | empty | present | stages = stage | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
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:8.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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