Balance: the centre of gravity, sentence 11
A tightrope walker's long pole is slow to turn, which gives the walker time to correct wobbles.
Who acts: long pole · What happens: be, turn, give, correct · To what, where: wobbles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance: the centre of gravity» 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 (long pole), 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 walker | det |
| 2 | tightrope | tightrope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walker | compound |
| 3 | walker | walker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pole | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 walker | case |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pole | amod |
| 6 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slow | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slow | cop |
| 8 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 turn | mark |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 slow | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gives | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 gives | nsubj |
| 13 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slow | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 walker | det |
| 15 | walker | walker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | compound |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gives | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 correct | mark |
| 18 | correct | correct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 time | acl |
| 19 | wobbles | wobble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 correct | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 slow | 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 | is | present | a tightrope walker's long pole | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | to-infinitive | a tightrope walker's long pole not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | present | time | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | correct speech: disagree | to-infinitive | wobbles | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wobble=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:008-balance-the-centre-of-gravity.lesson:11.
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 ×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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