Gravity, sentence 14
Even in air, two small solid balls, one heavy and one light, dropped from a low height land almost together, because the air hardly slows them.
Who acts: two small solid balls, air · What happens: drop, slow · To what, where: height land, air, feather
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gravity» 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 (two small solid balls, 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 air | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 air | case |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dropped | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 balls | punct |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 balls | nummod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 balls | amod |
| 7 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 balls | amod |
| 8 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dropped | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heavy | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 heavy | nummod |
| 11 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 balls | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 light | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 light | nummod |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heavy | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 air | punct |
| 16 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 height | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 land | det |
| 19 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 height | amod |
| 20 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 land | compound |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dropped | obl |
| 22 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 23 together | advmod |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 dropped | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 slows | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 slows | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 slows | nsubj |
| 28 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 29 slows | advmod |
| 29 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dropped | advcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 slows | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | two small solid balls | a height land | air | together property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | slow | present | the air | feather | hardly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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:006-gravity.lesson:14.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/14/