Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones, sentence 18
A balloon pilot cannot steer left or right; they go up or down to find winds blowing in different directions.
Who acts: balloon pilot, pilots, winds · What happens: not steer, go up, find, blow · To what, where: winds, different directions
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 (balloon pilot, pilots, winds), 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 | 3 pilot | det |
| 2 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pilot | compound |
| 3 | pilot | pilot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steer | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 steer | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 steer | advmod |
| 6 | steer | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | left | left | ADV | _ | 6 steer | advmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 right | cc |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 left | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 steer | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 down | cc |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 up | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | advcl |
| 18 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 winds | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 directions | case |
| 21 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 directions | amod |
| 22 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blowing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 steer | 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 | not steer | can | a balloon pilot | left property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go up | present | pilots = pilot | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | pilots = pilot not said here | winds | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic | ||||
| 4 | blow | gerund | winds not said here | different directions | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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:18.
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 ×1, 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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