--- title: The Earth's centre is a ball of iron and nickel about as hot as the… — Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre… · tree and pragmatics description: The Earth's centre is a ball of iron and nickel about as hot as the surface of the Sun, and around it is a layer of melted metal, so no tunnel could ever be dug through. Who acts: centre. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/41-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people/10/) [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/) / [Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/41-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people/) / 10 # Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 10 The Earth's centre is a ball of iron and nickel about as hot as the surface of the Sun, and around it is a layer of melted metal, so no tunnel could ever be dug through. **Who acts:** centre · **What happens:** be, melt, dig through · **To what, where:** ball, layer, tunnel This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» 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 (centre), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:10 # text = The Earth's centre is a ball of iron and nickel about as hot as the surface of the Sun, and around it is a layer of melted metal, so no tunnel could ever be dug through. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.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 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 nickel nickel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 around around ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 33 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 34 det _ _ 34 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 36 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 38 advmod _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 39 through through ADV RB _ 38 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:advmod 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | the Earth's centre | a ball and a layer | | | | of iron as the surface of the Sun and nickel | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | centre | | | a layer | | of melted metal | tree rules | | 3 | **melt** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **dig through** | could · passive | | no tunnel | | | ever | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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:041-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people.lesson:10`. **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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