Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 17

If you were twice as tall, twice as wide and twice as thick, you would weigh about 2 × 2 × 2 = 8 times as much, but your bones would only be about 4 times as strong, so giants would find it very hard to stand and walk.

Who acts: you, bones, giants · What happens: be, weigh, find, stand, walk · To what, where: much, 4 times, lot · 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 (you, bones, giants), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 tall	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tall	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tall	cop
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 tall	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 weigh	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 twice	punct
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 wide	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 wide	advmod
10	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tall	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 twice	cc
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 twice	conj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 thick	advmod
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 twice	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tall	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 weigh	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 weigh	aux
18	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 2	advmod
20	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 =	nummod
21	×	×	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 2	nmod:unmarked
22	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 ×	flat
23	×	×	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ×	conj
24	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 ×	flat
25	=	=	SYM	_	27 times	punct
26	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 times	nummod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 weigh	obl:unmarked
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 weigh	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 times	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 times	cc
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bones	nmod:poss
33	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 times	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 times	aux
35	only	only	ADV	_	39 times	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 times	cop
37	about	about	ADV	_	38 4	advmod
38	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	39 times	nummod
39	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 weigh	obl:unmarked
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 strong	advmod
41	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 weigh	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 find	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	46 find	advmod
44	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 find	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 find	aux
46	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 weigh	conj
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 find	obj
48	very	very	ADV	_	49 hard	advmod
49	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 find	xcomp
50	to	to	PART	_	51 stand	mark
51	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 hard	ccomp
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 walk	cc
53	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 stand	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 weigh	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	you			tall, twice property	tree rules
2	be		you not said here			twice property	tree rules
3	weigh	would	you	much	time		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
4	is a	would	your bones	4 times			tree rules
5	find	would	giants	lot		hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	stand	to-infinitive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	walk	infinitive					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:17.

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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×6. 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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