Gravity, sentence 2

The Moon is falling towards the Earth all the time, but it also moves sideways so fast that it keeps missing: like a ball whirled on a string, it goes round and round, with gravity as the string; if the string snapped, the ball would fly off in a straight line.

Who acts: Moon, string, ball · What happens: fall, move, keep, miss, whirl, go · To what, where: Earth, ball, string, straight line

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 (Moon, string, ball), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 falling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 falling	aux
4	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 falling	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falling	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 moves	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 moves	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 moves	nsubj
14	also	also	ADV	_	15 moves	advmod
15	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 falling	conj
16	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	15 moves	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 fast	advmod
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 moves	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 keeps	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 keeps	nsubj
21	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fast	advcl
22	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 keeps	xcomp
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 ball	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 ball	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 ball	det
26	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 missing	obl
27	whirled	whirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 ball	acl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 string	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 string	det
30	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whirled	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 goes	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 goes	nsubj
33	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 falling	conj
34	round	round	ADV	_	33 goes	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 round	cc
36	round	round	ADV	_	34 round	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 gravity	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 gravity	case
39	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 goes	obl
40	as	as	ADP	_	42 string	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 string	det
42	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 gravity	nmod
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 fly	punct
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 snapped	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 string	det
46	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 snapped	nsubj
47	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 fly	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 snapped	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 ball	det
50	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fly	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 fly	aux
52	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 falling	conj
53	off	off	ADP	_	52 fly	compound:prt
54	in	in	ADP	_	57 line	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 line	det
56	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 line	amod
57	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fly	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 falling	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present · progressive	the Moon		the Earth	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards earth=Initial_Location
2	move	present	Moon				fast, sideways property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	present	Moon					tree rules
4	miss	gerund	Moon not said here				like a ball	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	whirl	participle		a ball not said here	a string			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on string=Trajectory
6	go	present	Moon				with gravity as the string; round property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with gravity=Beneficiary
7	snap a condition, not said to happen	past	the string					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	fly off	would	the ball		a straight line			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=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:2.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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