Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 7
The apple pulls the Earth too, but the Earth is so heavy that it moves far less than the width of an atom.
Who acts: apple, Earth · What happens: pull, be, move · To what, where: Earth
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 (apple, Earth), 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 apple | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulls | nsubj |
| 3 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Earth | det |
| 5 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pulls | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 pulls | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavy | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 heavy | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Earth | det |
| 10 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 heavy | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 heavy | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 heavy | advmod |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pulls | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 moves | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 moves | nsubj |
| 16 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 heavy | advcl |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 less | advmod |
| 18 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 moves | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 width | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 width | det |
| 21 | width | width | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moves | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 atom | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 atom | det |
| 24 | atom | atom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 width | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | 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 apple | the Earth | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent earth=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Earth | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | move | present | Earth | than the width of a atom; less property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:7.
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): no change. 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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