Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 15
A balloon let go without its knot squeezes air out of its neck, and the air rushing out pushes the balloon the other way.
Who acts: balloon, air · What happens: let, go, squeeze out, rush out, push · To what, where: balloon, air
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 (balloon, air), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 balloon | det |
| 2 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 squeezes | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 balloon | acl |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 knot | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obl |
| 8 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 squeezes | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 squeezes | advmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 neck | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 squeezes | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pushes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pushes | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pushes | nsubj |
| 18 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 air | acl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 rushing | compound:prt |
| 20 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 squeezes | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 balloon | det |
| 22 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pushes | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pushes | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 squeezes | 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 | let | participle | a balloon not said here | without balloon's knot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | a balloon not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | squeeze out | present | a balloon | air | of balloon's neck; out property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent air=Theme of neck=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | rush out | gerund | the air not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | push | present | the air | the balloon | the other way obl:unmarked | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balloon=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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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