--- title: Most of a rocket is fuel, and its stages drop away as they empty. — Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere · tree and pragmatics description: Most of a rocket is fuel, and its stages drop away as they empty. Who acts: Most, stages. A sentence of the lesson «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/8/) [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/) / [Rockets, record speeds and motion ever…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/) / 8 # Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere, sentence 8 Most of a rocket is fuel, and its stages drop away as they empty. **Who acts:** Most, stages · **What happens:** be, drop away, empty · **To what, where:** fuel This is a sentence of the lesson «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» 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 (Most, stages), 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:8 # text = Most of a rocket is fuel, and its stages drop away as they empty. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 stages stage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound:prt 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 empty empty VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | Most of a rocket | fuel | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **drop away** | present | rocket's stages | | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **empty** | present | stages *= stage* | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | 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:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Rockets, record speeds and motion ever…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/7/) - next →: [Rockets, record speeds and motion ever…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/)