--- title: The Earth pulls everything towards its middle, so "down" means towar… — Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the E… · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth pulls everything towards its middle, so "down" means towards the centre of the Earth wherever you stand. Who acts: Earth, down, you. 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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, down, you), 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:5 # text = The Earth pulls everything towards its middle, so "down" means towards the centre of the Earth wherever you stand. # 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 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 5 towards towards ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 down down NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 towards towards ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | present | the Earth | everything | | Earth's middle | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme towards middle=Destination | | 2 | **mean** | present | down | | | | | towards the centre of the Earth | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stand** | present | you | | | | | wherever *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:5`. **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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/4/) - next →: [Why things fall: the apple and the pul…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/)