Rockets, satellites and astronauts, sentence 1
It needs no air to push against, so it works in empty space too.
Who acts: gas · What happens: need, push, work · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rockets, satellites and astronauts» 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 (gas), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 air | det |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 push | mark |
| 6 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 air | acl |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 push | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 works | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 works | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 works | nsubj |
| 11 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 needs | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 space | case |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 space | amod |
| 14 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 works | obl |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 works | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 needs | 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 | need | present | gas | no air | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push | to-infinitive | gas not said here | no air not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | work | present | gas | in empty space | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in space=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:071-rockets-satellites-astronauts.lesson:1.
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. 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.
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