Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 5
The Earth pulls everything towards its middle, so "down" means towards the centre of the Earth wherever you stand.
Who acts: Earth, down, you · What happens: pull, mean, stand · To what, where: everything, 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, down, you), 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 | 3 pulls | nsubj |
| 3 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 pulls | obj |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 middle | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 middle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulls | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 means | advmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 down | punct |
| 11 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 down | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulls | parataxis |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 centre | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 centre | det |
| 16 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Earth | det |
| 19 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 centre | nmod |
| 20 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 stand | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 stand | nsubj |
| 22 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present | the Earth | everything | Earth's middle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme towards middle=Destination | |||
| 2 | mean | present | down | towards the centre of the Earth | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand | present | you | wherever property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:5.
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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