Balance: the centre of gravity, sentence 14
A tall thing tips over slowly, so a broom is easier to balance on your palm than a pencil.
Who acts: tall thing, broom · What happens: tip over, be, balance · To what, where: palm
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 (tall thing, broom), 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 thing | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tips | nsubj |
| 4 | tips | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 easier | advcl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 tips | compound:prt |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 tips | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 easier | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 easier | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 broom | det |
| 10 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 easier | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 easier | cop |
| 12 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 balance | mark |
| 14 | balance | balance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 easier | xcomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 palm | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 palm | nmod:poss |
| 17 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 balance | obl |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 pencil | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pencil | det |
| 20 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 balance | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tips | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tip over | present | a tall thing | slowly property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a broom | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | balance | to-infinitive | a broom not said here | your palm | than a pencil | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on palm=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:008-balance-the-centre-of-gravity.lesson:14.
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. 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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