Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, sentence 16

The Earth carries us round the Sun at about 100,000 kilometres an hour, and the ground at the equator spins at about 1,600 kilometres an hour, but the motion is so smooth that we feel nothing.

Who acts: Earth, ground, motion, we · What happens: carry, spin, be, feel · To what, where: us, 100,000 kilometres, 1,600 kilometres, nothing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» 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 (Earth, ground, motion, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 carries	nsubj
3	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 carries	obj
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 carries	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 kilometres	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 100,000	advmod
10	100,000	100000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 kilometres	nummod
11	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carries	obl
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hour	det
13	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spins	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 spins	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spins	nsubj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 equator	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 equator	det
20	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ground	nmod
21	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carries	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 kilometres	case
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 1,600	advmod
24	1,600	1,600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 kilometres	nummod
25	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spins	obl
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hour	det
27	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 smooth	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 smooth	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 motion	det
31	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 smooth	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 smooth	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 smooth	advmod
34	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carries	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 feel	mark
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 feel	nsubj
37	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 smooth	advcl
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 feel	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carries	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present	the Earth	us	100,000 kilometres a hour	round the Sun	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	spin	present	the ground at the equator		1,600 kilometres a hour		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at kilometre=Trajectory
3	is	present	the motion			smooth property	tree rules
4	feel	present	we	nothing			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:16.

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, R8-pos-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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