Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 6
So enjoy the dream, and keep the real rules for the real world: things fall faster and faster, the Earth's middle is hotter than any oven, and people grow slowly, a few centimetres a year.
Who acts: you, things, middle, people · What happens: enjoy, keep, fall, be, grow · To what, where: dream, real rules, few centimetres
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, things, middle, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 enjoy | advmod |
| 2 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dream | det |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 enjoy | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 keep | cc |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 enjoy | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rules | det |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rules | amod |
| 10 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 fall | punct |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fall | nsubj |
| 17 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 enjoy | conj |
| 18 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 fall | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 faster | cc |
| 20 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 faster | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hotter | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Earth | det |
| 23 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 middle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Earth | case |
| 25 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hotter | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hotter | cop |
| 27 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 fall | conj |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 oven | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 oven | det |
| 30 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hotter | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grow | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 grow | cc |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 grow | nsubj |
| 34 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hotter | conj |
| 35 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 34 grow | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 centimetres | punct |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 centimetres | det |
| 38 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 centimetres | amod |
| 39 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 grow | obl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 year | det |
| 41 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 centimetres | nmod:unmarked |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 enjoy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | imperative | you not said here | the dream | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | the real rules | for the real world | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | present | things | fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the Earth's middle | than any oven; hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow | present | people | a few centimetres a year | slowly property | 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:6.
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 ×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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