Balance: the centre of gravity, sentence 8
Something tips over only when its centre of gravity goes outside its base, so wide, low things are hard to tip.
Who acts: Something, centre, low things · What happens: tip, go over, be · To what, where: base
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 (Something, centre, low things), 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 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 tips | nsubj |
| 2 | tips | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 goes | compound:prt |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 goes | mark |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 centre | nmod:poss |
| 7 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gravity | case |
| 9 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 centre | nmod |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tips | advcl |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 base | nmod:poss |
| 13 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hard | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 hard | advmod |
| 16 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 21 hard | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wide | punct |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hard | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hard | cop |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tips | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 tip | mark |
| 23 | tip | tip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hard | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tips | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tip | present | Something | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go over | present | toy's centre of gravity | centre's base | outside property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | low things | hard, wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tip | to-infinitive | low things not said here | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:008-balance-the-centre-of-gravity.lesson:8.
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 ×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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