--- title: Drop a feather and a stone together and the stone wins, but not beca… — Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the E… · tree and pragmatics description: Drop a feather and a stone together and the stone wins, but not because it is heavier: the air pushes back on the fluffy feather much more. Who acts: you, stone, air. 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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 (you, stone, air), 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:3 # text = Drop a feather and a stone together and the stone wins, but not because it is heavier: the air pushes back on the fluffy feather much more. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Drop drop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 together together ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod 24 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 fluffy fluffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 much much ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | imperative | you *not said here* | a feather and a stone | | | | together *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | | 2 | **win** | present | the stone | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | stone | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **push back** | present | the air | | | | | on the fluffy feather | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on feather=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/1/) - next →: [Why things fall: the apple and the pul…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/)