Balance: the centre of gravity, sentence 5

A ruler balances on your finger when your finger is right under its middle; a lump of clay on one end moves the balancing point towards the clay.

Who acts: ruler, finger, lump · What happens: balance, be, move · To what, where: finger, middle, balancing point, clay

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 (ruler, finger, lump), 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 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 balances	nsubj
3	balances	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 finger	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 finger	nmod:poss
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 balances	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 right	advmod
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 finger	nmod:poss
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 balances	advcl
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 middle	nmod:poss
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 right	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 moves	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lump	det
17	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 moves	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 clay	case
19	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lump	nmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 end	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 end	nummod
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lump	nmod
23	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 balances	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 point	det
25	balancing	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 point	compound
26	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 moves	obj
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	29 clay	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 clay	det
29	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 moves	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 balances	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	balance	present	a ruler		your finger		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on finger=Location
2	is	present	your finger		finger's middle	right property	tree rules
3	move	present	a lump of clay on one end	the balancing point	the clay		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent point=Theme towards clay=Trajectory

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: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, R7-rel-agree ×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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