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title: Gravity at the International Space Station is about 90% as strong as… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · 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 round the Earth. Who acts: Gravity, astronauts. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, sentence 13

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Gravity at the International Space Station is about 90% as strong as on the ground; astronauts float because they are falling round the Earth.

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**Who acts:** Gravity, astronauts · **What happens:** be, float, fall · **To what, where:** Earth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:13
# text = Gravity at the International Space Station is about 90% as strong as on the ground; astronauts float because they are falling round the Earth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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): 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	_	13	fixed	_	_
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	round	round	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	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **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 |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round earth=Initial\_Location |

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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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**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): 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.

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