--- title: A tennis ball and a golf ball dropped together from a table land at… — Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A tennis ball and a golf ball dropped together from a table land at about the same time, but a flat sheet of paper drifts down far more slowly because the air slows it much more. Who acts: tennis ball, flat sheet, air. 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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 (tennis ball, flat sheet, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:15 # text = A tennis ball and a golf ball dropped together from a table land at about the same time, but a flat sheet of paper drifts down far more slowly because the air slows it much more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tennis tennis NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 golf golf NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 drifts drift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 down down ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 29 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 30 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 much much ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 34 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **drop** | past | a tennis ball and a golf ball | | | table | | together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from table=Trajectory | | 2 | **land** | infinitive | a tennis ball and a golf ball *not said here* | | | | time | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **drift down** | present | a flat sheet of paper | | | | | down, far, slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **slow** | present | the air | sheet | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. 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