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title: Everything that has mass pulls on everything else, and this pull is… — Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the E… · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything that has mass pulls on everything else, and this pull is called gravity. Who acts: Everything. A sentence of the lesson «Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 0

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Everything that has mass pulls on everything else, and this pull is called gravity.

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**Who acts:** Everything · **What happens:** have, pull, call · **To what, where:** mass, pull · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth» of the physics 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 (Everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:001-why-things-fall.lesson:0
# text = Everything that has mass pulls on everything else, and this pull is called gravity.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 001-why-things-fall.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | mass |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Patient |
| 2 | **pull** | present | Everything |  |  |  |  | on everything | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on everything=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | this pull |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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**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:physics:001-why-things-fall.lesson:0`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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