--- title: At launch the rocket speeds up so fast that astronauts are pressed b… — Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere · tree and pragmatics description: At launch the rocket speeds up so fast that astronauts are pressed back into their seats, which is why they lie on their backs. Who acts: rocket, astronauts. 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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 (rocket, astronauts), 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:9 # text = At launch the rocket speeds up so fast that astronauts are pressed back into their seats, which is why they lie on their backs. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 2 launch launch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 speeds speed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 astronauts astronaut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 conj _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl:relcl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **speed up** | present | the rocket | | | launch | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at launch=Trajectory | | 2 | **press** | present · passive | | astronauts | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **lie** | present | astronauts *= astronaut* | | | astronauts's backs | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=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:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:9`. **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, 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. 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