--- title: Gravity at the International Space Station is about 90% as strong as… — Earth from space · tree and pragmatics description: Gravity at the International Space Station is about 90% as strong as on the ground; astronauts float because they are falling around the Earth together with their station; anything falling freely acts weightless, so water even stops pouring from holes in a dropped cup. Who acts: Gravity, astronauts, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Earth from space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/) / 7 # Earth from space, sentence 7 Gravity at the International Space Station is about 90% as strong as on the ground; astronauts float because they are falling around the Earth together with their station; anything falling freely acts weightless, so water even stops pouring from holes in a dropped cup. **Who acts:** Gravity, astronauts, anything, water · **What happens:** be, float, fall, act, stop, pour · **To what, where:** Earth, holes This is a sentence of the lesson «Earth from space» of the myths 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, anything, water), 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:7 # text = Gravity at the International Space Station is about 90% as strong as on the ground; astronauts float because they are falling around the Earth together with their station; anything falling freely acts weightless, so water even stops pouring from holes in a dropped cup. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 International International PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 Space Space PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Station Station PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 as as ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advcl 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 24 around around ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 together together ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 nsubj _ _ 33 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 acl _ _ 34 freely freely ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 35 acts act VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 36 weightless weightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 even even ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 42 pouring pour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 xcomp _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 amod _ _ 48 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Gravity at the International Space Station | | | | | as the ground; strong *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 | | with astronauts's station; together *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around earth=Location | | 4 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | freely *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **act** | present | anything | | | | | weightless *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stop** | present | water | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **pour** | gerund | water *not said here* | | | holes in a dropped cup | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from hole=Source | | 8 | **drop** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:myths:013-earth-from-space.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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Earth from space, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/6/) - next →: [Earth from space, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/13-earth-from-space/)