--- title: A flat sheet of paper flutters down slowly, but the same sheet screw… — Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the E… · tree and pragmatics description: A flat sheet of paper flutters down slowly, but the same sheet screwed into a ball drops fast, because only its shape changed. Who acts: flat sheet, shape. 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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 (flat sheet, shape), 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:13 # text = A flat sheet of paper flutters down slowly, but the same sheet screwed into a ball drops fast, because only its shape changed. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 flutters flutter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 down down ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 8 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj:pass 14 screwed screw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flutter down** | present | a flat sheet of paper | | | | | down, slowly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **screw** | participle | | the same sheet *not said here* | | a ball | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **drop** | present · passive | | the same sheet | | | | fast *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **change** | past | sheet's shape | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:13`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Why things fall: the apple and the pul…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/12/) - next →: [Why things fall: the apple and the pul…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/)