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title: Without air, light and heavy objects fall at the same speed. — Gravity · tree and pragmatics
description: Without air, light and heavy objects fall at the same speed. Who acts: light objects. A sentence of the lesson «Gravity» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gravity, sentence 12

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Without air, light and heavy objects fall at the same speed.

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**Who acts:** light objects · **What happens:** fall · **To what, where:** same speed

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gravity» 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 (light objects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:006-gravity.lesson:12
# text = Without air, light and heavy objects fall at the same speed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 006-gravity.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): no change
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **fall** | present | light objects |  |  | the same speed |  | without air | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |

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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): no change. **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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