Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 13

People in Australia and New Zealand stand with their feet down and heads up just like us, because «down» always means towards the centre of the Earth.

Who acts: People, down · What happens: stand, mean

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 (People, down), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stand	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Australia	case
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Zealand	cc
5	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Zealand	amod
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Australia	conj
7	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stand	obl
11	down	down	ADV	_	7 stand	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heads	cc
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stand	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 heads	compound:prt
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 us	advmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 us	case
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 stand	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stand	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 means	mark
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 down	punct
21	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	nsubj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 down	punct
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 means	advmod
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stand	advcl
25	towards	towards	ADP	_	27 centre	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 centre	det
27	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Earth	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Earth	det
30	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 centre	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stand	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	People in Australia and New Zealand					with people's feet; like us; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	down					towards the centre of the Earth; always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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