Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 1
In real life a fall gets faster and faster every second, so this only works in a dream, and the book is a dream.
Who acts: fall, this, book · What happens: get, work, be · To what, where: real life, dream
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» 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 (fall, this, book), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 life | case |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fall | det |
| 5 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 gets | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 faster | cc |
| 9 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 faster | conj |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 second | det |
| 11 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 works | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 works | advmod |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 works | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 works | advmod |
| 16 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gets | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 dream | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dream | det |
| 19 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 works | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dream | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dream | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 book | det |
| 23 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dream | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 dream | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dream | det |
| 26 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 works | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | 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 | get | present | a fall | real life | second | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | work | present | this | in a dream | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dream=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the book | a dream | tree rules |
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:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.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): 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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