Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 1

The Earth is so huge that its pull is the one we feel: it tugs every apple, ball and child towards its middle.

Who acts: Earth, pull, we · What happens: be, feel, tug, pull · To what, where: one, apple, middle

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth» of the physics 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 (Earth, pull, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 huge	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 huge	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 huge	advmod
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 one	mark
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pull	nmod:poss
8	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 huge	ccomp
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 feel	nsubj
13	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	acl:relcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 tugs	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tugs	nsubj
16	tugs	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 huge	parataxis
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 apple	det
18	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tugs	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ball	punct
20	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 apple	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 child	cc
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 apple	conj
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	25 middle	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 middle	nmod:poss
25	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tugs	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 huge	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Earth			huge property	tree rules
2	is a	present	Earth's pull	the one			tree rules
3	feel	present	we	the one not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	tug	present	pull	every apple and ball and child	pull's middle		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme towards middle=Destination
5	pull		Earth				nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent

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:physics:001-why-things-fall.lesson:1.

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): 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.

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