Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere, sentence 9

At launch the rocket speeds up so fast that astronauts are pressed back into their seats, which is why they lie on their backs.

Who acts: rocket, astronauts · What happens: speed up, press, be, lie · To what, where: launch, astronauts, backs

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 (rocket, astronauts), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 launch	case
2	launch	launch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speeds	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rocket	det
4	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speeds	nsubj
5	speeds	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 speeds	compound:prt
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 speeds	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 pressed	mark
10	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pressed	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pressed	aux:pass
12	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fast	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 pressed	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 seats	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 seats	nmod:poss
16	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 back	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 why	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 why	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 why	cop
20	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 pressed	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lie	nsubj
22	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 why	advcl:relcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 backs	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 backs	nmod:poss
25	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lie	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 speeds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speed up	present	the rocket		launch	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at launch=Trajectory
2	press	present · passive		astronauts			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result
3	is	present				why property	tree rules
4	lie	present	astronauts = astronaut		astronauts's backs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location

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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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