--- title: Stopping slowly is gentler than stopping suddenly, which is why bent… — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics description: Stopping slowly is gentler than stopping suddenly, which is why bent knees, sand, mats and helmet foam soften a landing: a girl in Edinburgh jumping into a sandpit lands softly because the sand lets her slow down over a longer time. Who acts: Stopping, girl, sand. A sentence of the lesson «Reasoning --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Reasoning about the body moving in the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/) / 4 # Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 4 Stopping slowly is gentler than stopping suddenly, which is why bent knees, sand, mats and helmet foam soften a landing: a girl in Edinburgh jumping into a sandpit lands softly because the sand lets her slow down over a longer time. **Who acts:** Stopping, girl, sand · **What happens:** stop, be, jump, land, let, slow down · **To what, where:** sandpit, girl This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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 (Stopping, girl, sand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:4 # text = Stopping slowly is gentler than stopping suddenly, which is why bent knees, sand, mats and helmet foam soften a landing: a girl in Edinburgh jumping into a sandpit lands softly because the sand lets her slow down over a longer time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Stopping stop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 gentler gentle ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 than than SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 11 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 12 bent bent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 mats mat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 foam foam NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 21 soften soften VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 landing landing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Edinburgh Edinburgh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 jumping jump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sandpit sandpit NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 lands land VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 34 softly softly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 slow slow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 down down ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 42 over over ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 45 amod _ _ 45 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | gerund | | | | | | slowly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | Stopping | | | | | gentle *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stop** | gerund | Stopping *not said here* | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | soften *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **jump** | gerund | a girl in Edinburgh *not said here* | | | | | into a sandpit *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sandpit=Result | | 6 | **land** | present | a girl in Edinburgh | | | | | softly *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **let** | present | the sand | girl | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **slow down** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:4`. **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): R8-pos-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Reasoning about the body moving in the…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/3/) - next →: [Reasoning about the body moving in the…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/)