Gravity, sentence 17
Gravity works in space too; astronauts float because they are falling around the Earth together with their ship.
Who acts: Gravity, astronauts, tides · What happens: work, float, fall · To what, where: Earth
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 (Gravity, astronauts, tides), 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 | 2 works | nsubj |
| 2 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 space | case |
| 4 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 works | obl |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 works | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 float | punct |
| 7 | astronauts | astronaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 float | nsubj |
| 8 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 works | parataxis |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 falling | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 falling | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 falling | aux |
| 12 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 float | advcl |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 Earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Earth | det |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 falling | obl |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 falling | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 ship | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ship | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 falling | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Gravity | in space | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in space=Theme | ||||
| 2 | float | present | astronauts | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fall | present · progressive | tides = tide | the Earth | with tides's ship; together property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around earth=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:17.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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