Why planes fly, sentence 11

Flaps and slats slide out of the wing at take-off and landing, making it bigger and more curved so the plane can fly slowly without falling.

Who acts: Flaps, plane · What happens: slide, make, curve, fly, fall · To what, where: wing, landing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why planes fly» of the technology 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 (Flaps, plane), 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	Flaps	flap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slide	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 slats	cc
3	slats	slat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Flaps	conj
4	slide	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 wing	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wing	det
8	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slide	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 off	case
10	take	take	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 off	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 off	punct
12	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wing	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 landing	cc
14	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 off	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 making	punct
16	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 slide	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 making	obj
18	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 making	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 curved	cc
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 curved	advmod
21	curved	curve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 bigger	conj
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 fly	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 plane	det
24	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fly	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fly	aux
26	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 making	advcl
27	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	26 fly	advmod
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 falling	mark
29	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 fly	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slide	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slide	present	Flaps and slats		the wing at take off and landing		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out wing=Trajectory
2	make	gerund	Flaps and slats not said here	landing		big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	curve	participle	Flaps and slats not said here				vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
4	fly	can	the plane			slowly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	gerund	the plane not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:technology:022-why-planes-fly.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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