Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 14

When you jump off a small boat, your legs push the boat backwards, so it drifts away; step off carefully with a hand on the jetty.

Who acts: you, legs, boat · What happens: jump off, push, drift away, step off · To what, where: small boat, boat

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, legs, boat), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 jump	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 jump	nsubj
3	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 push	advcl
4	off	off	ADP	_	7 boat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boat	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boat	amod
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jump	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 push	punct
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 legs	nmod:poss
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 push	nsubj
11	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boat	det
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 push	obj
14	backwards	backward	ADV	_	11 push	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drifts	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 drifts	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drifts	nsubj
18	drifts	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 push	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 drifts	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 step	punct
21	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 push	conj
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 step	compound:prt
23	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	21 step	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hand	det
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 step	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 jetty	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 jetty	det
29	jetty	jetty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hand	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 push	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump off	present	you	a small boat		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boat=Trajectory
2	push	present	your legs	the boat	backward property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	drift away	present	boat		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	step off	infinitive	your legs not said here		with a hand on the jetty; carefully property	vn run-51.3.2 «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:14.

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. 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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