--- title: Galileo studied falling things about 400 years ago and showed that w… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Galileo studied falling things about 400 years ago and showed that weight matters far less than people thought. Who acts: Galileo, weight, people. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/17/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Sounds right, but is wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/) / 17 # Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 17 Galileo studied falling things about 400 years ago and showed that weight matters far less than people thought. **Who acts:** Galileo, weight, people · **What happens:** study, fall, show, matter, think · **To what, where:** falling things · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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 (Galileo, weight, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:17 # text = Galileo studied falling things about 400 years ago and showed that weight matters far less than people thought. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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 ×3 1 Galileo Galileo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 studied study VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 8 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 14 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 16 than than SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **study** | past | Galileo | falling things | | | | ago *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **show** | past | Galileo *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **matter** | present | weight | | | | | less *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:17`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Sounds right, but is wrong, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/16/) - next →: [Sounds right, but is wrong, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/)