--- title: Landing safely is about stopping slowly: an egg dropped on a pillow… — Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely · tree and pragmatics description: Landing safely is about stopping slowly: an egg dropped on a pillow survives, but on the hard floor it stops in an instant and cracks. Who acts: egg. 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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 (egg), 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:3 # text = Landing safely is about stopping slowly: an egg dropped on a pillow survives, but on the hard floor it stops in an instant and cracks. # 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 Landing land VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 nsubj _ _ 2 safely safely ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 obl _ _ 6 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pillow pillow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 survives survive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 cracks crack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **land** | gerund | | | | | | safely *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **be** | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | gerund | | | | | | slowly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **drop** | participle | | a egg *not said here* | | a pillow | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on pillow=Trajectory | | 5 | **survive** | present | a egg | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stop** | present | egg | | | the hard floor | | in a instant | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location | | 7 | **crack** | present | egg *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:physics:003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.lesson:3`. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/2/) - next →: [Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/)