Gravity, sentence 12
Without air, light and heavy objects fall at the same speed.
Who acts: light objects · What happens: fall · To what, where: same speed
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gravity» 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 (light objects), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 2 air | case |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fall | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fall | punct |
| 4 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 objects | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 light | cc |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 light | conj |
| 7 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fall | nsubj |
| 8 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 speed | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 speed | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speed | amod |
| 12 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fall | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | light objects | the same speed | without air | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |
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:006-gravity.lesson:12.
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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