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description: The higher you jump from, the faster you are going when you land, and bending your knees makes the stop gentler. Who acts: you, bending. 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 pra
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# Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 10

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The higher you jump from, the faster you are going when you land, and bending your knees makes the stop gentler.

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**Who acts:** you, bending · **What happens:** jump, go, land, bend, make · **To what, where:** knees, stop

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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 (you, bending), 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:10
# text = The higher you jump from, the faster you are going when you land, and bending your knees makes the stop gentler.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	land	land	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	gentler	gentle	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **jump** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **land** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bend** | gerund |  | your knees |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material |
| 5 | **make** | present | bending | the stop |  |  |  | gentle *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stop=Product |

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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:10`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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