Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones, sentence 19
A drone flies with four or more small rotors spinning at different speeds, and some hold their place in the air using GPS.
Who acts: drone, four small rotors, some · What happens: fly, spin, hold, use · To what, where: different speeds, place, air, GPS
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 (drone, four small rotors, some), 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 drone | det |
| 2 | drone | drone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flies | nsubj |
| 3 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rotors | case |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 rotors | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 more | cc |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 four | conj |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rotors | amod |
| 9 | rotors | rotor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flies | obl |
| 10 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 rotors | acl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 speeds | case |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 speeds | amod |
| 13 | speeds | speed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spinning | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hold | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hold | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 hold | nsubj |
| 17 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flies | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 place | nmod:poss |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 air | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 air | det |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | obl |
| 23 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 hold | advcl |
| 24 | GPS | GPS | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 using | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | a drone | with four small rotors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spin | gerund | four small rotors not said here | different speeds | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hold | present | some | speeds's place | the air | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme in air=Location | |||
| 4 | use | gerund | some not said here | GPS | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gps=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:19.
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. 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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