Balance: the centre of gravity, sentence 9
Racing cars are built low and wide so they do not tip over in fast corners.
Who acts: cars · What happens: build, not tip over · To what, where: Racing cars, fast corners
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 (cars), 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 | Racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cars | compound |
| 2 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 built | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wide | cc |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 low | conj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 tip | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tip | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tip | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 tip | advmod |
| 12 | tip | tip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 built | advcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 tip | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 corners | case |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 corners | amod |
| 16 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tip | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | Racing cars | low property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | not tip over | present · do-support | cars = car | fast corners | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in corner=Destination |
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:9.
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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