Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 11

In an imaginary airless tunnel through the Earth, you would speed up until the middle, then slow down and just reach the other side, then fall back again, like a swing.

Who acts: you · What happens: speed up, slow down, reach, fall back · To what, where: imaginary airless tunnel, other side

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 (you), 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	_	5 tunnel	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tunnel	det
3	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tunnel	amod
4	airless	airless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tunnel	amod
5	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speed	obl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tunnel	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tunnel	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 speed	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 speed	aux
12	speed	speed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 speed	compound:prt
14	until	until	ADP	_	16 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slow	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 slow	advmod
19	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 speed	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 slow	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 reach	cc
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 reach	advmod
23	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 slow	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 side	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 side	amod
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reach	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fall	punct
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 fall	advmod
29	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 reach	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 fall	advmod
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 fall	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 swing	punct
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 swing	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 swing	det
35	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fall	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 speed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speed up	would	you		a imaginary airless tunnel through the Earth	until the middle		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tunnel=Trajectory
2	slow down	infinitive	you not said here			then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	reach	infinitive	you not said here	the other side				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme
4	fall back	infinitive	you not said here			then; again	like a swing	vn occur-48.3 «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:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:11.

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): no change. 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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