Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 11
People in Australia do not fall off, because there is no real top or bottom to the Earth.
Who acts: People, real top · What happens: not fall off, be
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 (People, real top), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Australia | case |
| 3 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 People | nmod |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fall | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fall | advmod |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 fall | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 is | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fall | advcl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 top | det |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 top | amod |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 bottom | cc |
| 16 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Earth | det |
| 19 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fall off | present · do-support | People in Australia | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | does | present | no real top to the Earth or bottom | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:physics:001-why-things-fall.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×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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