Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 3

She is right that the Earth is about four thousand miles to its centre, but nobody on the other side is upside down: «down» everywhere means towards the middle of the Earth.

Who acts: fall, Earth, nobody · What happens: be, mile, mean · To what, where: upside

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» 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 (fall, Earth, nobody), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 miles	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 miles	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 centre	cop
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 thousand	advmod
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 thousand	compound
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 miles	nummod
11	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 centre	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 centre	nmod:poss
14	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 miles	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nobody	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 nobody	cc
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 upside	nsubj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 side	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 side	amod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nobody	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 upside	cop
23	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 miles	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 upside	advmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 «	punct
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 down	punct
27	down	down	ADV	_	30 means	nsubj
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 down	punct
29	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 means	advmod
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
31	towards	towards	ADP	_	33 middle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 middle	det
33	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 means	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Earth	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Earth	det
36	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 middle	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	fall		right property	tree rules
2	mile		the Earth			tree rules
3	is	present			to Earth's centre	tree rules
4	is a	present	nobody	upside	down property	tree rules
5	mean	present			towards the middle of the Earth; everywhere property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:3.

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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