Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 8

With no air in the way, a heavy thing and a light thing fall at the same speed; an astronaut showed this on the Moon in 1971 by dropping a hammer and a feather, which landed together.

Who acts: heavy thing, astronaut, hammer · What happens: fall, show, drop, land · To what, where: same speed, this, Moon, hammer

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 (heavy thing, astronaut, hammer), 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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