Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 7
Gravity always pulls straight down, towards the centre of the Earth, even on a slope.
Who acts: Gravity · What happens: pull
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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 (Gravity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulls | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 pulls | advmod |
| 3 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 down | advmod |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 pulls | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 centre | punct |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 centre | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 centre | det |
| 9 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulls | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Earth | det |
| 12 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 centre | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slope | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 slope | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 slope | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 slope | det |
| 17 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulls | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulls | punct |
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 | pull | present | Gravity | towards the centre of the Earth; on a slope; always, down property | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on slope=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, 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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.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): no change. 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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