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title: Even in air, two small solid balls, one heavy and one light, dropped… — Gravity · tree and pragmatics
description: Even in air, two small solid balls, one heavy and one light, dropped from a low height land almost together, because the air hardly slows them. Who acts: two small solid balls, air. A sentence of the lesson «Gravity» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Gravity, sentence 14

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Even in air, two small solid balls, one heavy and one light, dropped from a low height land almost together, because the air hardly slows them.

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**Who acts:** two small solid balls, air · **What happens:** drop, slow · **To what, where:** height land, air, feather

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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 (two small solid balls, air), 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:14
# text = Even in air, two small solid balls, one heavy and one light, dropped from a low height land almost together, because the air hardly slows them.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
19	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
22	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **drop** | past | two small solid balls | a height land |  | air |  | together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory |
| 2 | **slow** | present | the air | feather |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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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**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:006-gravity.lesson:14`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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