--- title: Skydivers spread out like a starfish to catch more air, and dive hea… — Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely · tree and pragmatics description: Skydivers spread out like a starfish to catch more air, and dive head first like an arrow to go faster. Who acts: Skydivers. A sentence of the lesson «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/7/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/) / 7 # Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 7 Skydivers spread out like a starfish to catch more air, and dive head first like an arrow to go faster. **Who acts:** Skydivers · **What happens:** spread out, catch, dive, go · **To what, where:** more air, head This is a sentence of the lesson «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» of the physics 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 (Skydivers), 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:7 # text = Skydivers spread out like a starfish to catch more air, and dive head first like an arrow to go faster. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Skydivers skydiver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 starfish starfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 9 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 dive dive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl 21 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **spread out** | present | Skydivers | | | | | like a starfish | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Skydivers *not said here* | more air | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 3 | **dive** | present | Skydivers *not said here* | head | | | | like a arrow; first *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | | 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | Skydivers *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:7`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/6/) - next →: [Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/)