The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 14
The Sun's gravity holds the Earth, and the Earth's sideways speed keeps it from falling into the Sun.
Who acts: gravity, sideways speed · What happens: hold, keep, fall · To what, where: Earth, gravity, Sun.
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 (gravity, sideways speed), 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 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gravity | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Sun | case |
| 4 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holds | nsubj |
| 5 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Earth | det |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 holds | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeps | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 keeps | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Earth | det |
| 11 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 speed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Earth | case |
| 13 | sideways | sideway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 speed | compound |
| 14 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeps | nsubj |
| 15 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 holds | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 keeps | obj |
| 17 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 18 falling | mark |
| 18 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 keeps | advcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 Sun. | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sun. | det |
| 21 | Sun. | Sun | PROPN | _ | 18 falling | obl |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | the Sun's gravity | the Earth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | the Earth's sideways speed | gravity | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | gerund | the Earth's sideways speed not said here | into the Sun. result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sun=Result |
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:14.
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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