Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets, sentence 15
Gravity is the pull of the Earth that makes things fall downwards.
Who acts: Gravity, Earth, things · What happens: be, make, fall · To what, where: pull, things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets» of the world 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 (Gravity, Earth, things), 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 | Gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pull | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pull | det |
| 4 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Earth | det |
| 7 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Earth | acl:relcl |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 makes | obj |
| 11 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 11 fall | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Gravity | the pull | of the Earth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | present | the Earth | things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | things not said here | downwards property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:world:051-forces.lesson:15.
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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