The age of science, sentence 8

Newton said a falling apple made him think about gravity, but the story that it hit him on the head is probably made up.

Who acts: Newton, falling apple, apple · What happens: say, fall, make, think, hit, make up · To what, where: Newton, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history 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 (Newton, falling apple, apple), 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	Newton	Newton	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 apple	det
4	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 apple	amod
5	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 gravity	case
10	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj:pass
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 hit	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hit	nsubj
17	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 story	acl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hit	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 head	det
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hit	obl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux:pass
23	probably	probably	ADV	_	24 made	advmod
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 made	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 made	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Newton			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall	gerund				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past	a falling apple	Newton		tree rules
4	think speech: other	infinitive	Newton not said here		about gravity	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about gravity=Topic
5	hit	past	apple	Newton	on the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on head=Patient
6	make up	present · passive		the story	probably property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

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:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:8.

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): 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.

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