Why planes fly, sentence 13
Keeping your seat belt fastened whenever you are seated protects you if the plane hits sudden bumps.
Who acts: seat belt, Keeping, plane · What happens: keep, fasten, seat, protect, hit · To what, where: seat belt, you, sudden bumps
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 (seat belt, Keeping, 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 | Keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 protects | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 belt | nmod:poss |
| 3 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belt | compound |
| 4 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keeping | obj |
| 5 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Keeping | xcomp |
| 6 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 fastened | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 seated | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seated | aux:pass |
| 9 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 whenever | advcl:relcl |
| 10 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 protects | obj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 hits | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 plane | det |
| 14 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hits | nsubj |
| 15 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 protects | advcl |
| 16 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bumps | amod |
| 17 | bumps | bump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hits | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 protects | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | your seat belt | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fasten | participle | your seat belt not said here | whenever property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seat | present · passive | you | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | |||||
| 4 | protect | present | Keeping | you | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | hit a condition, not said to happen | present | the plane | sudden bumps | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bump=Co-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:13.
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): no change. 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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