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title: Gravity is the pull of the Earth that makes things fall downwards. — Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: Gravity is the pull of the Earth that makes things fall downwards. Who acts: Gravity, Earth, things. A sentence of the lesson «Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets, sentence 15

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Gravity is the pull of the Earth that makes things fall downwards.

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**Who acts:** Gravity, Earth, things · **What happens:** be, make, fall · **To what, where:** pull, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets» 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 (Gravity, Earth, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:051-forces.lesson:15
# text = Gravity is the pull of the Earth that makes things fall downwards.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 051-forces.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	downwards	downwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 a** | present | Gravity | the pull |  |  |  | of the Earth | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | the Earth | things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | infinitive | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | downwards *property* | 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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**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:051-forces.lesson:15`.

**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): R8-pos-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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