--- title: The Moon is falling towards the Earth all the time, but its sideways… — The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon is falling towards the Earth all the time, but its sideways speed carries it past, so its path bends round the Earth. Who acts: Moon, sideways speed, path. 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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, sideways speed, path), 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:5 # text = The Moon is falling towards the Earth all the time, but its sideways speed carries it past, so its path bends round the Earth. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 towards towards ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sideways sideways ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 past past ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 24 round round ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present · progressive | the Moon | | | the Earth | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards earth=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **carry** | present | Moon's sideways speed | Moon | | | | past *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **bend** | present | Moon's path | | | the Earth | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round earth=Location | 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: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: [The Moon, the planets and the pull tha…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/4/) - next →: [The Moon, the planets and the pull tha…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/)