--- title: The Moon is like that ball, and the Earth's gravity is the string: t… — The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon is like that ball, and the Earth's gravity is the string: the Moon is falling towards us all the time, but it moves sideways so fast that it keeps missing. Who acts: Moon, gravity. 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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 (Moon, gravity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:1 # text = The Moon is like that ball, and the Earth's gravity is the string: the Moon is falling towards us all the time, but it moves sideways so fast that it keeps missing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 parataxis _ _ 21 towards towards ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 sideways sideway ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 36 missing miss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Moon | | | | | like that ball and the string | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the Earth's gravity | the string | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | present · progressive | the Moon | | | | time | towards us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards we=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **move** | present | Moon | | | | | fast, sideway *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | present | Moon | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **miss** | gerund | Moon *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [The Moon, the planets and the pull tha…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/0/) - next →: [The Moon, the planets and the pull tha…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/)