Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★, sentence 8

A seesaw balances when the heavier person sits closer in: someone twice as heavy balances at half the distance from the middle.

Who acts: seesaw, heavier person, someone · What happens: balance, sit

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» 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 (seesaw, heavier person, someone), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 seesaw	det
2	seesaw	seesaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 balances	nsubj
3	balances	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sits	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 person	det
6	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 person	amod
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sits	nsubj
8	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 balances	advcl
9	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sits	xcomp
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 closer	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 balances	punct
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 balances	nsubj
13	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 heavy	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 heavy	case
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 someone	amod
16	balances	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 balances	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 distance	case
18	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	20 distance	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 distance	det
20	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 balances	obl
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 middle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 middle	det
23	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 distance	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 balances	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	balance	present	a seesaw		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	present	the heavier person	close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	balance	present	someone	at half distance from the middle	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at distance=Location

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:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:8.

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. 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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