--- title: A ball thrown straight up is pulled by gravity the whole time, even… — Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the E… · tree and pragmatics description: A ball thrown straight up is pulled by gravity the whole time, even at the top where it seems to stop for a moment. Who acts: gravity, it. 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 p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Why things fall: the apple and the pul…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/) / 8 # Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth, sentence 8 A ball thrown straight up is pulled by gravity the whole time, even at the top where it seems to stop for a moment. **Who acts:** gravity, it · **What happens:** throw, pull, seem, stop · **To what, where:** ball, top 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 (gravity, it), 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:8 # text = A ball thrown straight up is pulled by gravity the whole time, even at the top where it seems to stop for a moment. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 straight straight ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:agent _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 14 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | participle | | a ball *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **pull** | present · passive | gravity | a ball | | the top | time | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at top=Asset | | 3 | **seem** | present | it | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | | | | | moment | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:8`. **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): no change. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/7/) - next →: [Why things fall: the apple and the pul…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/)