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title: Two simple ideas explain a lot of everyday moving: gravity always pu… — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Two simple ideas explain a lot of everyday moving: gravity always pulls straight down, and a moving body keeps moving until something stops it. Who acts: Two simple ideas, gravity, moving body, something. A sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday course 
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# Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 0

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Two simple ideas explain a lot of everyday moving: gravity always pulls straight down, and a moving body keeps moving until something stops it.

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**Who acts:** Two simple ideas, gravity, moving body, something · **What happens:** explain, pull, move, keep, stop · **To what, where:** lot, body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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 (Two simple ideas, gravity, moving body, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:0
# text = Two simple ideas explain a lot of everyday moving: gravity always pulls straight down, and a moving body keeps moving until something stops it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	explain	explain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	moving	moving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
22	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	xcomp	_	_
23	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Two simple ideas | a lot  everyday moving |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
| 2 | **pull** | present | gravity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always, down *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | present | a moving body |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **move** | gerund | a moving body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** | present | something | body |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×4. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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