Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 4
Then she shrinks to ten inches and grows to over nine feet, and later to three inches and huge again.
Who acts: fall · What happens: shrink, grow · To what, where: ten inches
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 (fall), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shrinks | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shrinks | nsubj |
| 3 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 ten | case |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 inches | nummod |
| 6 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shrinks | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grows | cc |
| 8 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrinks | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 nine | advmod |
| 11 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 feet | nummod |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grows | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 later | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 later | cc |
| 15 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 shrinks | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 inches | case |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 inches | nummod |
| 18 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 later | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 huge | cc |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 inches | conj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 huge | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shrinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | present | fall | ten inches | then | late property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | grow | present | fall not said here | to nine feet | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:4.
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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