--- title: Flaps and slats slide out of the wing at take-off and landing, makin… — Why planes fly · tree and pragmatics description: Flaps and slats slide out of the wing at take-off and landing, making it bigger and more curved so the plane can fly slowly without falling. Who acts: Flaps, plane. A sentence of the lesson «Why planes fly» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/11/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Why planes fly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/) / 11 # Why planes fly, sentence 11 Flaps and slats slide out of the wing at take-off and landing, making it bigger and more curved so the plane can fly slowly without falling. **Who acts:** Flaps, plane · **What happens:** slide, make, curve, fly, fall · **To what, where:** wing, landing This is a sentence of the lesson «Why planes fly» of the technology 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 (Flaps, plane), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:022-why-planes-fly.lesson:11 # text = Flaps and slats slide out of the wing at take-off and landing, making it bigger and more curved so the plane can fly slowly without falling. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 022-why-planes-fly.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Flaps flap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 slats slat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 slide slide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 take take NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 landing landing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 21 curved curve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 22 so so SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl 27 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 without without SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slide** | present | Flaps and slats | | | the wing at take off and landing | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out wing=Trajectory | | 2 | **make** | gerund | Flaps and slats *not said here* | landing | | | | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **curve** | participle | Flaps and slats *not said here* | | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 4 | **fly** | can | the plane | | | | | slowly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | gerund | the plane *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «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:technology:022-why-planes-fly.lesson:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Why planes fly, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/10/) - next →: [Why planes fly, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/)