Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 19

When Alice cries as a giant she makes a pool of tears deep enough to swim in; real tears come in small drops, and even a long cry makes far less than a cupful.

Who acts: Alice, real tears, long cry · What happens: cry, make, swim, come · To what, where: pool, small drops, less

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 (Alice, real tears, long cry), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 cries	mark
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cries	nsubj
3	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 makes	advcl
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 giant	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cries	obl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 makes	nsubj
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pool	det
10	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 tears	case
12	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pool	nmod
13	deep	deep	ADV	_	16 swim	advmod
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 deep	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 swim	mark
16	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 makes	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	16 swim	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tears	amod
20	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 makes	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 drops	case
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 drops	amod
24	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 makes	cc
27	even	even	ADV	_	30 cry	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cry	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cry	amod
30	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 makes	nsubj
31	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	conj
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 less	advmod
33	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 makes	obj
34	than	than	ADP	_	36 cupful	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cupful	det
36	cupful	cupful	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 less	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	Alice			as a giant	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Alice	a pool of tears			tree rules
3	swim	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			deep property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	present	real tears		small drops		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drop=Location
5	make	present	a long cry	less			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset less=Product

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:19.

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 ×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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