Why planes fly, sentence 3
A wing does the same, only it is far better shaped and the plane itself races through the air.
Who acts: wing, plane · What happens: do, race · To what, where: same, air
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 (wing, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wing | det |
| 2 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 same | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shaped | punct |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 shaped | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shaped | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shaped | aux:pass |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 better | advmod |
| 11 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 shaped | advmod |
| 12 | shaped | shaped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 same | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 races | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plane | det |
| 15 | plane | plane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 races | nsubj |
| 16 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 plane | nmod |
| 17 | races | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shaped | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 races | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | a wing | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | race | present | the plane plane | the air | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=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:technology:022-why-planes-fly.lesson:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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