Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 7

A falling object speeds up every second because gravity keeps pulling it; only air pushing back slows it, which is why a parachute falls gently and a stone does not.

Who acts: falling object, gravity, air, stone · What happens: fall, speed up, keep, pull, push back, slow · To what, where: gravity

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 (falling object, gravity, air, stone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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