The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 1

The Moon is like that ball, and the Earth's gravity is the string: the Moon is falling towards us all the time, but it moves sideways so fast that it keeps missing.

Who acts: Moon, gravity · What happens: be, fall, move, keep, miss · To what, where: string

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them» 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 (Moon, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ball	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ball	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 ball	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 string	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 string	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gravity	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Earth	case
12	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 string	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 string	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 string	det
15	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ball	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 falling	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Moon	det
18	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 falling	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 falling	aux
20	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 string	parataxis
21	towards	towards	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 falling	obl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 time	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 falling	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 moves	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 moves	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 moves	nsubj
29	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 falling	conj
30	sideways	sideway	ADV	_	29 moves	advmod
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 fast	advmod
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 moves	advmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 keeps	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 keeps	nsubj
35	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fast	advcl
36	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 keeps	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ball	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Moon			like that ball and the string	tree rules
2	is a	present	the Earth's gravity	the string			tree rules
3	fall	present · progressive	the Moon		time	towards us	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards we=Initial_Location
4	move	present	Moon			fast, sideway property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	present	Moon				tree rules
6	miss	gerund	Moon not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:1.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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