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title: Toast falling off a table often turns about half a turn before it la… — Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests · tree and pragmatics
description: Toast falling off a table often turns about half a turn before it lands, so it lands butter side down quite often from table height; a scientist tested this with lots of toast. Who acts: Toast, scientist. A sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths course of Mov
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# Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 9

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Toast falling off a table often turns about half a turn before it lands, so it lands butter side down quite often from table height; a scientist tested this with lots of toast.

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**Who acts:** Toast, scientist · **What happens:** fall off, turn about, land, land down, test · **To what, where:** table, turn, butter side, this

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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 (Toast, scientist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:9
# text = Toast falling off a table often turns about half a turn before it lands, so it lands butter side down quite often from table height; a scientist tested this with lots of toast.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nsubj
2	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:csubj
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
19	butter	but	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	tested	test	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
31	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall off** | gerund | Toast *not said here* | a table |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **turn about** | present | Toast | half turn |  |  |  | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme turn=Result |
| 3 | **land** | present | toast |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **land down** | present | toast | butter side |  |  |  | down, often *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme side=Destination |
| 5 | **test** | past | a scientist | this |  |  |  | with lots of toast | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |

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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.

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**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:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:9`.

**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 ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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