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title: Your mass, the amount of you, is the same everywhere, but your weigh… — Thinking like an astronomer · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mass, the amount of you, is the same everywhere, but your weight is the pull of gravity on you; the Moon has much less mass than the Earth, so it pulls about six times more weakly, and a child of 30 kilograms would weigh as much as 5 kilograms do on the Earth. Who acts: mass, weight, Moon, chil
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# Thinking like an astronomer, sentence 1

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Your mass, the amount of you, is the same everywhere, but your weight is the pull of gravity on you; the Moon has much less mass than the Earth, so it pulls about six times more weakly, and a child of 30 kilograms would weigh as much as 5 kilograms do on the Earth.

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**Who acts:** mass, weight, Moon, child, 5 kilograms · **What happens:** be, have, pull about, weigh, do, amount · **To what, where:** pull, less mass, Earth, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an astronomer» of the world 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 (mass, weight, Moon, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:010-reasoning-about-space.lesson:1
# text = Your mass, the amount of you, is the same everywhere, but your weight is the pull of gravity on you; the Moon has much less mass than the Earth, so it pulls about six times more weakly, and a child of 30 kilograms would weigh as much as 5 kilograms do on the Earth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 010-reasoning-about-space.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 ×2
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
38	about	about	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	42	advmod	_	_
42	weakly	weakly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
52	as	as	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	much	much	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
54	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
55	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
57	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **is** | present | Your mass |  |  |  |  | everywhere, same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | your weight | the pull |  |  |  | of gravity; on you | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | the Moon | less mass |  |  |  | than the Earth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Patient |
| 4 | **pull about** | present | Moon |  |  |  |  | weakly *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **weigh** | would | a child of 30 kilograms |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | present | 5 kilograms |  |  | the Earth |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **amount** |  |  | you |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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