--- title: Without air in the way, heavy and light things fall at the same spee… — Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests · tree and pragmatics description: Without air in the way, heavy and light things fall at the same speed; on the Moon in 1971 an astronaut dropped a hammer and a feather and they landed together; on Earth, air pushes against light, wide things like a feather and slows them, and a sheet of paper laid flat on top of a book falls with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/14/) [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/) / [Let's test it! Experiments and fair te…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/) / 14 # Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 14 Without air in the way, heavy and light things fall at the same speed; on the Moon in 1971 an astronaut dropped a hammer and a feather and they landed together; on Earth, air pushes against light, wide things like a feather and slows them, and a sheet of paper laid flat on top of a book falls with it, because the book keeps the air off it. **Who acts:** heavy things, astronaut, hammer, air, sheet, book · **What happens:** fall, drop, land, push, slow, lay · **To what, where:** same speed, hammer, Moon, sheet, top, air This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» 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 (heavy things, astronaut, hammer, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:14 # text = Without air in the way, heavy and light things fall at the same speed; on the Moon in 1971 an astronaut dropped a hammer and a feather and they landed together; on Earth, air pushes against light, wide things like a feather and slows them, and a sheet of paper laid flat on top of a book falls with it, because the book keeps the air off it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Without without ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 1971 1971 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 astronaut astronaut NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 landed land VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 together together ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 parataxis _ _ 40 against against ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ _ 45 like like ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 50 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 nsubj _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 57 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 acl _ _ 58 flat flat ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 59 on on ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 64 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 65 with with ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 66 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 obl _ _ 67 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 68 because because SCONJ IN _ 71 mark _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 70 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 nsubj _ _ 71 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 64 advcl _ _ 72 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 73 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 obj _ _ 74 off off ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 75 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 71 obl _ _ 76 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24: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 | **fall** | present | heavy things | | | the same speed | | without air in the way | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | | 2 | **drop** | past | a astronaut | a hammer and a feather | | the Moon | | in 1971 | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme on moon=Destination in 1971=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **land** | past | hammer | | | | | together *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **push** | present | air | | | | | against light; on Earth | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on earth=Theme | | 5 | **slow** | present | air *not said here* | hammer | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 6 | **lay** | participle | | a sheet of paper *not said here* | | top of a book | | flat *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on top=Destination | | 7 | **fall** | present | a sheet of paper | | | | | with paper | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **keep** | present | the book | the air | | | | off paper | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=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:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:14`. **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): 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: [Let's test it! Experiments and fair te…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/13/) - next →: [Let's test it! Experiments and fair te…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/)