Pushes and pulls all around us, sentence 10
A bouncy ball squashes and springs back, while clay squashes and stays squashed, warming a little.
Who acts: bouncy ball, clay · What happens: squash, spring back, stay, warm · To what, where: little
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls all around us» 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 (bouncy ball, clay), 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 | 3 ball | det |
| 2 | bouncy | bouncy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ball | amod |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 squashes | nsubj |
| 4 | squashes | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 springs | cc |
| 6 | springs | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 squashes | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 springs | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 squashes | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 squashes | mark |
| 10 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 squashes | nsubj |
| 11 | squashes | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 squashes | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stays | cc |
| 13 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 squashes | conj |
| 14 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stays | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warming | punct |
| 16 | warming | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 squashes | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 little | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 warming | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 squashes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | present | a bouncy ball | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spring back | present | a bouncy ball not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | squash | present | clay | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stay | present | clay not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | squash | participle | clay not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | warm | gerund | a bouncy ball not said here | a little | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:005-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us.lesson:10.
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): R7-rel-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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