Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones, sentence 15
A helicopter's rotor blades are long thin wings that spin; the small tail rotor stops the body spinning the other way.
Who acts: rotor blades, long thin wings, small tail rotor, body · What happens: be, spin, stop · To what, where: long thin wings, body, other way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones» 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 (rotor blades, long thin wings, small tail rotor, body), 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 helicopter | det |
| 2 | helicopter | helicopter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blades | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 helicopter | case |
| 4 | rotor | rotor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blades | compound |
| 5 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wings | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wings | cop |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wings | amod |
| 8 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wings | amod |
| 9 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 spin | nsubj |
| 11 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wings | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 stops | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rotor | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rotor | amod |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rotor | compound |
| 16 | rotor | rotor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stops | nsubj |
| 17 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wings | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stops | obj |
| 20 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 body | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 way | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 way | amod |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spinning | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a helicopter's rotor blades | long thin wings | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spin | present | long thin wings | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | present | the small tail rotor | the body | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality body=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | spin | gerund | the body not said here | the other way | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:023-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones.lesson:15.
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 ×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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