--- title: Isaac Newton explained that gravity makes an apple fall and keeps th… — The age of science · tree and pragmatics description: Isaac Newton explained that gravity makes an apple fall and keeps the Moon going around the Earth, and his laws of motion are still used to send rockets into space. Who acts: Isaac, gravity, apple, Moon. A sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The age of science](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/) / 7 # The age of science, sentence 7 Isaac Newton explained that gravity makes an apple fall and keeps the Moon going around the Earth, and his laws of motion are still used to send rockets into space. **Who acts:** Isaac, gravity, apple, Moon · **What happens:** explain, make, fall, keep, go, used · **To what, where:** Earth, laws, rockets, space · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history 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 (Isaac, gravity, apple, Moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:7 # text = Isaac Newton explained that gravity makes an apple fall and keeps the Moon going around the Earth, and his laws of motion are still used to send rockets into space. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 029-the-age-of-science.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): no change 1 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Newton Newton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 15 around around ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 motion motion NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 used used VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 29 rockets rocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Isaac | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** | present | gravity | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | infinitive | a apple | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | gravity *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | gerund | the Moon | | | the Earth | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around earth=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **used** | present · passive | | gravity's laws of motion | | | still | | tree rules | | 7 | **send** | to-infinitive | | rockets | | space | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=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](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:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:7`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The age of science, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/6/) - next →: [The age of science, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/)