Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 12

The antipodes of a place is the point exactly opposite it on the other side of the Earth; for Britain it is in the Pacific Ocean south-east of New Zealand, which is why people in Britain call Australia and New Zealand «the Antipodes».

Who acts: antipodes, Earth, New Zealand, people · What happens: be, call · To what, where: point, other side, Pacific Ocean, Australia · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (antipodes, Earth, New Zealand, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 antipodes	det
2	antipodes	antipode	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 point	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 place	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 antipodes	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 point	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 point	det
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	11 it	advmod
10	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 point	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 side	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 side	amod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 point	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Earth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Earth	det
18	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 side	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Britain	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 Britain	case
21	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Ocean	obl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 Ocean	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Ocean	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 Ocean	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Ocean	det
26	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Ocean	compound
27	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 point	parataxis
28	south	south	ADV	_	30 east	advmod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 east	punct
30	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Ocean	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Zealand	case
32	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Zealand	amod
33	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 east	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 why	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 why	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 why	cop
37	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 Zealand	acl:relcl
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 call	nsubj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 Britain	case
40	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 people	nmod
41	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 why	ccomp
42	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 call	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 Zealand	cc
44	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Zealand	amod
45	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Australia	conj
46	«	«	PUNCT	_	48 Antipodes	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Antipodes	det
48	Antipodes	antipode	PROPN	Number=Plur	42 Australia	appos
49	»	»	PUNCT	_	48 Antipodes	punct
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 point	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the antipodes of a place	the point		the other side of the Earth	opposite point	tree rules
2	is	present	Earth			the Pacific Ocean	for Britain; east of New Zealand nmod	tree rules
3	is	present	New Zealand				why property	tree rules
4	call	present	people in Britain		Australia and New Zealand			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent australia=Recipient

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.

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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): R6-punct-agree ×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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