Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 6
A falling apple speeds up all the way down because gravity keeps pulling it.
Who acts: falling apple, gravity · What happens: fall, speed up, keep, pull · To what, where: gravity
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 (falling apple, gravity), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 apple | det |
| 2 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 apple | amod |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speeds | nsubj |
| 4 | speeds | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 speeds | compound:prt |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 way | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 down | obl |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 speeds | advmod |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 keeps | mark |
| 11 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeps | nsubj |
| 12 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speeds | advcl |
| 13 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 keeps | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pulling | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speeds | 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 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | speed up | present | a falling apple | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | gravity | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pull | gerund | gravity not said here | gravity | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:6.
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 ×2, 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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