--- title: A sycamore seed's wing makes it spin, and the spinning slows its fal… — Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely · tree and pragmatics description: A sycamore seed's wing makes it spin, and the spinning slows its fall, giving the wind time to carry it away from its parent tree. Who acts: wing, seed, spinning. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wing, seed, spinning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.lesson:10 # text = A sycamore seed's wing makes it spin, and the spinning slows its fall, giving the wind time to carry it away from its parent tree. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sycamore sycamore NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 13 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **make** | present | a sycamore seed's wing | seed | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spin** | infinitive | seed *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **slow** | present | the spinning | seed's fall | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fall=Patient | | 4 | **give** | gerund | the spinning *not said here* | | | | time | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **carry** | to-infinitive | the spinning *not said here* | seed | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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](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. 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