Pushes and pulls all around us, sentence 5
A swimmer's hands and feet push water backwards, and the water pushes the swimmer forward; rowing and paddling work the same way.
Who acts: hands, water, rowing · What happens: push, work · To what, where: water, swimmer
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 (hands, water, rowing), 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 swimmer | det |
| 2 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 swimmer | case |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 push | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 feet | cc |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hands | conj |
| 7 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 push | obj |
| 9 | backwards | backward | ADV | _ | 7 push | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pushes | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pushes | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pushes | nsubj |
| 14 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 push | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 swimmer | det |
| 16 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pushes | obj |
| 17 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 14 pushes | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 rowing | punct |
| 19 | rowing | rowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 work | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 paddling | cc |
| 21 | paddling | paddling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rowing | conj |
| 22 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 push | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 paddling | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 push | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | present | a swimmer's hands and feet | water | backward property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 2 | push | present | the water | the swimmer | forward property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme | |||
| 3 | work | present | rowing and paddling | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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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