"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section, sentence 22
The Moon flag had a rod along its top to hold it out; it moved when astronauts twisted the pole, and with no air to slow it, it kept wobbling longer.
Who acts: Moon flag, flag, astronauts · What happens: have, hold out, move, twist, slow, keep · To what, where: rod, flag, pole
This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's on TikTok so it's true" and the comment section» of the world 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 (Moon flag, flag, astronauts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flag | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flag | compound |
| 3 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rod | det |
| 6 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 top | nmod:poss |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hold | mark |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hold | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 hold | compound:prt |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 moved | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 moved | nsubj |
| 16 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 twisted | advmod |
| 18 | astronauts | astronaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 twisted | nsubj |
| 19 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 moved | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pole | det |
| 21 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 twisted | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 kept | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 kept | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 air | case |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 air | det |
| 26 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kept | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 slow | mark |
| 28 | slow | slow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 air | acl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 slow | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 air | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 kept | nsubj |
| 32 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 moved | conj |
| 33 | wobbling | wobble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 kept | xcomp |
| 34 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 wobbling | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Moon flag | a rod | along flag's top | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Patient | |||
| 2 | hold out | to-infinitive | the Moon flag not said here | flag | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | move | past | flag | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | twist | past | astronauts | the pole | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pole=Theme | ||||
| 5 | slow | to-infinitive | flag not said here | pole | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | keep | past | flag | with no air | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wobble | gerund | flag not said here | long property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP 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:world:175-its-on-tiktok-so-its-true-and-the-comment-section.lesson:22.
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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