--- title: A wing does the same, only it is far better shaped and the plane its… — Why planes fly · tree and pragmatics description: A wing does the same, only it is far better shaped and the plane itself races through the air. Who acts: wing, 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 of every clause. --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Why planes fly, sentence 3 A wing does the same, only it is far better shaped and the plane itself races through the air. **Who acts:** wing, plane · **What happens:** do, race · **To what, where:** same, air 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 (wing, 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:3 # text = A wing does the same, only it is far better shaped and the plane itself races through the air. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 3 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:cop 10 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 11 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 12 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 15 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:appos 17 races race VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 18 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **do** | present | a wing | the same | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | | 2 | **race** | present | the plane plane | | | the air | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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: [Why planes fly, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/2/) - next →: [Why planes fly, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/)