Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 15
Balls of a similar shape fall at almost the same speed whatever their weight; air only slows light, fluffy things like feathers a lot.
Who acts: air · What happens: slow · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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 (air), 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 | Balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fall | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shape | det |
| 4 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shape | amod |
| 5 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Balls | nmod |
| 6 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Balls | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 speed | case |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 speed | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 speed | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 speed | amod |
| 11 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fall | obl |
| 12 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 14 weight | det |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 weight | nmod:poss |
| 14 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 speed | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 air | punct |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slows | nsubj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 slows | advmod |
| 18 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Balls | parataxis |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slows | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 things | punct |
| 21 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 light | appos |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 feathers | case |
| 24 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 things | nmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lot | det |
| 26 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slows | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Balls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow | present | air | light | a lot obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=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:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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