--- title: The Earth is so huge that its pull is the one we feel: it tugs every… — Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the E… · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth is so huge that its pull is the one we feel: it tugs every apple, ball and child towards its middle. Who acts: Earth, pull, we. 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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 (Earth, pull, we), 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:1 # text = The Earth is so huge that its pull is the one we feel: it tugs every apple, ball and child towards its middle. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 tugs tug VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 towards towards ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | the Earth | | | | | huge *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Earth's pull | the one | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | present | we | the one *not said here* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **tug** | present | pull | every apple and ball and child | | pull's middle | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme towards middle=Destination | | 5 | **pull** | | Earth | | | | | | nom pull «act transitive»: 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:physics:001-why-things-fall.lesson:1`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Why things fall: the apple and the pul…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/0/) - next →: [Why things fall: the apple and the pul…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/)