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title: In an imaginary airless tunnel through the Earth, you would speed up… — Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre… · tree and pragmatics
description: In an imaginary airless tunnel through the Earth, you would speed up until the middle, then slow down and just reach the other side, then fall back again, like a swing. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of t
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# Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 11

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In an imaginary airless tunnel through the Earth, you would speed up until the middle, then slow down and just reach the other side, then fall back again, like a swing.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** speed up, slow down, reach, fall back · **To what, where:** imaginary airless tunnel, other side

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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 (you), 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:11
# text = In an imaginary airless tunnel through the Earth, you would speed up until the middle, then slow down and just reach the other side, then fall back again, like a swing.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	airless	airless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	until	until	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	slow	slow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed up** | would | you |  |  | a imaginary airless tunnel through the Earth | until the middle |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tunnel=Trajectory |
| 2 | **slow down** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **reach** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the other side |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
| 4 | **fall back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then; again | like a swing | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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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