--- title: The Earth also spins, and the ground near the equator spins round fa… — Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth also spins, and the ground near the equator spins round fastest, so a rocket launched there gets a free sideways start. Who acts: Earth, ground, rocket. 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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, ground, rocket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:14 # text = The Earth also spins, and the ground near the equator spins round fastest, so a rocket launched there gets a free sideways start. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 round round ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 fastest fast ADV RBS Degree=Sup 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 launched launch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 acl _ _ 20 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 21 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 sideways sideways ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod 25 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spin** | present | the Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spin round** | present | the ground near the equator | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **launch** | participle | | a rocket *not said here* | | there | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | present | a rocket | a free sideways start | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer start=Stimulus | 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:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:14`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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. 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