--- title: A roller coaster car stays on the track upside down in a loop becaus… — The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them · tree and pragmatics description: A roller coaster car stays on the track upside down in a loop because it is going fast enough that the track has to keep pushing it round. Who acts: coaster car, car, track. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them» of the physics course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/18/) [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/) / [The Moon, the planets and the pull tha…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/) / 18 # The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 18 A roller coaster car stays on the track upside down in a loop because it is going fast enough that the track has to keep pushing it round. **Who acts:** coaster car, car, track · **What happens:** stay, go, have, keep, push · **To what, where:** track, upside This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them» 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 (coaster car, car, track), 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:18 # text = A roller coaster car stays on the track upside down in a loop because it is going fast enough that the track has to keep pushing it round. # 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): R5-strong ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 roller roller NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 coaster coaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 8 track track NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 9 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 down down ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 loop loop NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 18 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 19 enough enough ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 track track NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 pushing push VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 xcomp _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 round round ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | a coaster car | the track | | upside | | in a loop; down *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on upside=Location | | 2 | **go** | present · progressive | car | | | | | enough, fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | the track | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the track *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **push** | gerund | the track *not said here* | track | | | | round *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:18`. **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. **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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/17/) - next →: [Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/)