--- title: If you were twice as tall, twice as wide and twice as thick, you wou… — Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre… · tree and pragmatics description: If you were twice as tall, twice as wide and twice as thick, you would weigh about 2 × 2 × 2 = 8 times as much, but your bones would only be about 4 times as strong, so giants would find it very hard to stand and walk. Who acts: you, bones, giants. 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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 (you, bones, giants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:17 # text = If you were twice as tall, twice as wide and twice as thick, you would weigh about 2 × 2 × 2 = 8 times as much, but your bones would only be about 4 times as strong, so giants would find it very hard to stand and walk. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.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 ×6 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 conj _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 21 × × NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 23 × × NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 flat _ _ 25 = = SYM SYM _ 27 punct _ _ 26 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 37 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 as as ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 41 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 45 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 very very ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 49 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 50 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 51 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 ccomp _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 conj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | | | tall, twice *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | you *not said here* | | | | | twice *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **weigh** | would | you | much | | | time | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | would | your bones | 4 times | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | would | giants | lot | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **stand** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **walk** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:17`. **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 ×6. **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. 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