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title: People in Australia do not fall off, because there is no real top or… — Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the E… · tree and pragmatics
description: People in Australia do not fall off, because there is no real top or bottom to the Earth. Who acts: People, real top. 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 cl
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# Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 11

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People in Australia do not fall off, because there is no real top or bottom to the Earth.

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**Who acts:** People, real top · **What happens:** not fall off, be

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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 (People, real top), 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:11
# text = People in Australia do not fall off, because there is no real top or bottom to the Earth.
# 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
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fall off** | present · do-support | People in Australia |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **does** | present | no real top to the Earth or bottom |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:11`.

**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. **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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