The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 9
Astronauts float because they and the station are falling round the Earth together, so nothing presses on the floor.
Who acts: Astronauts, nothing · What happens: float, fall, press · To what, where: Earth
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 (Astronauts, nothing), 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 | Astronauts | astronaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 float | nsubj |
| 2 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 falling | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 falling | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 station | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 station | det |
| 7 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 they | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 falling | aux |
| 9 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 float | advcl |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 Earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Earth | det |
| 12 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 falling | obl |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 falling | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 presses | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 presses | advmod |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 presses | nsubj |
| 17 | presses | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 falling | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 floor | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 floor | det |
| 20 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 presses | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 float | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | Astronauts | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | present · progressive | Astronauts = astronaut | the Earth | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | press | present | nothing | on the floor | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on floor=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:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:9.
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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