Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 17
Galileo worked this out nearly 400 years earlier, with careful thinking and experiments with balls rolling down slopes.
Who acts: Galileo, balls · What happens: work out, roll down · To what, where: this, slopes
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 (Galileo, balls), 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 | Galileo | Galileo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 worked | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 worked | compound:prt |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 6 400 | advmod |
| 6 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 earlier | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 worked | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thinking | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 thinking | case |
| 11 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thinking | amod |
| 12 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 worked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 experiments | cc |
| 14 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thinking | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 balls | case |
| 16 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 experiments | nmod |
| 17 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 balls | acl |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 rolling | compound:prt |
| 19 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rolling | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worked | 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 | work out | past | Galileo | this | with careful thinking and experiments with balls; early property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||
| 2 | roll down | gerund | balls not said here | slopes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slope=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:17.
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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