The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 5

The Moon is falling towards the Earth all the time, but its sideways speed carries it past, so its path bends round the Earth.

Who acts: Moon, sideways speed, path · What happens: fall, carry, bend · To what, where: Earth, Moon

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, sideways speed, path), 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	4 falling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 falling	aux
4	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 falling	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falling	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 carries	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 carries	cc
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 speed	nmod:poss
14	sideways	sideways	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 speed	amod
15	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carries	nsubj
16	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 falling	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carries	obj
18	past	past	ADV	_	16 carries	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bends	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 bends	advmod
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 path	nmod:poss
22	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bends	nsubj
23	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 carries	conj
24	round	round	ADP	_	26 Earth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Earth	det
26	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 bends	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 falling	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present · progressive	the Moon		the Earth	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards earth=Initial_Location
2	carry	present	Moon's sideways speed	Moon			past property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	bend	present	Moon's path		the Earth			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round earth=Location

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: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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