Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 1
Kick a football and your foot pushes it for a split second; the harder the kick, the faster it flies.
Who acts: you, foot, kick · What happens: kick, push, fly · To what, where: football
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop» 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, foot, kick), 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 | Kick | kick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 football | det |
| 3 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kick | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pushes | cc |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 foot | nmod:poss |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushes | nsubj |
| 7 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kick | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pushes | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 second | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 second | det |
| 11 | split | split | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 second | amod |
| 12 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushes | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 faster | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 harder | det |
| 15 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 faster | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kick | det |
| 17 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 harder | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 harder | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 faster | det |
| 20 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Kick | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flies | nsubj |
| 22 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 faster | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | imperative | you not said here | a football | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent football=Patient | ||||
| 2 | push | present | your foot | football | second | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | fly | present | kick | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP 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:004-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop.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. 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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