--- title: Even sitting still on your chair you are flying: the Earth spins and… — Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere · tree and pragmatics description: Even sitting still on your chair you are flying: the Earth spins and races round the Sun at about 100,000 kilometres an hour, and you do not notice because everything moves with you. Who acts: you, Earth, everything. 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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 (you, Earth, everything), 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:3 # text = Even sitting still on your chair you are flying: the Earth spins and races round the Sun at about 100,000 kilometres an hour, and you do not notice because everything moves with you. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Even even ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 flying fly VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 races race VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 round round ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 33 nsubj _ _ 33 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **sit** | gerund | | | | your chair | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location | | 2 | **fly** | present · progressive | you | | | 100,000 kilometres a hour | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at kilometre=Location | | 3 | **spin** | present | the Earth | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **race** | present | the Earth *not said here* | | | the Sun | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round sun=Trajectory | | 5 | **not** **notice** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **move** | present | everything | | | | | with you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:3`. **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. **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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