--- title: The real reasons are better: astronauts float because they and their… — Earth from space · tree and pragmatics description: The real reasons are better: astronauts float because they and their station are falling round the Earth together, seasons come from the Earth's tilt, and the Sun seems to move because the Earth spins. Who acts: real reasons, astronauts, seasons, Sun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real reasons, astronauts, seasons, Sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:4 # text = The real reasons are better: astronauts float because they and their station are falling round the Earth together, seasons come from the Earth's tilt, and the Sun seems to move because the Earth spins. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 013-earth-from-space.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 16 round round ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 together together ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 21 seasons season NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 tilt tilt NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 because because SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det 37 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the real reasons | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **float** | present | astronauts | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | present · progressive | astronauts *= astronaut* | | | the Earth | | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **come** | present | seasons | | | the Earth's tilt | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tilt=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **seem** | present | the Sun | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **move** | to-infinitive | the Sun *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **spin** | present | the Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **tilt** | | the Earth | | | | | | nom tilt «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:myths:013-earth-from-space.lesson:4`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Earth from space, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/3/) - next →: [Earth from space, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/)