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title: People in Australia and New Zealand stand with their feet down and h… — Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre… · tree and pragmatics
description: People in Australia and New Zealand stand with their feet down and heads up just like us, because «down» always means towards the centre of the Earth. Who acts: People, down. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physic
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# Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people, sentence 13

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People in Australia and New Zealand stand with their feet down and heads up just like us, because «down» always means towards the centre of the Earth.

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**Who acts:** People, down · **What happens:** stand, mean

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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 (People, down), 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:13
# text = People in Australia and New Zealand stand with their feet down and heads up just like us, because «down» always means towards the centre of the Earth.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
25	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11: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 | **stand** | present | People in Australia and New Zealand |  |  |  |  | with people's feet; like us; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present | down |  |  |  |  | towards the centre of the Earth; always *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:13`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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/).

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