--- title: Fly a kite on a windy day: its face is tilted into the wind, so it t… — Why planes fly · tree and pragmatics description: Fly a kite on a windy day: its face is tilted into the wind, so it turns the rushing air downwards, and the air pushes the kite up into the sky. Who acts: you, face, air. A sentence of the lesson «Why planes fly» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Why planes fly, sentence 2 Fly a kite on a windy day: its face is tilted into the wind, so it turns the rushing air downwards, and the air pushes the kite up into the sky. **Who acts:** you, face, air · **What happens:** fly, tilt, turn, rush, push up · **To what, where:** kite, face, wind, rushing air, sky 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 (you, face, air), 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:2 # text = Fly a kite on a windy day: its face is tilted into the wind, so it turns the rushing air downwards, and the air pushes the kite up into the sky. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Fly fly VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 kite kite NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 windy windy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 tilted tilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 rushing rush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 downwards downwards ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 kite kite NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 up up ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | imperative | you *not said here* | a kite | | | day | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kite=Theme | | 2 | **tilt** | present · passive | | kite's face | | the wind | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | face | the rushing air | | | | downwards *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme air=Result | | 4 | **rush** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **push up** | present | the air | the kite | | the sky | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kite=Theme into sky=Destination | 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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