Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 13
Mass is the amount of matter in an object; weight is the pull of gravity on it.
Who acts: Mass, weight · What happens: be · To what, where: amount, pull, mass
This is a sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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 (Mass, weight), 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 | Mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amount | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 amount | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 amount | det |
| 4 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 matter | case |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amount | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 object | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 object | det |
| 9 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matter | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pull | punct |
| 11 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pull | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pull | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pull | det |
| 14 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 amount | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gravity | case |
| 16 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pull | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pull | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 amount | 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 | is a | present | Mass | the amount | of matter in a object | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | weight | the pull | mass | of gravity | tree rules |
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:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:13.
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.
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