--- title: The Moon's gravity pulls on the oceans and helps make the tides, the… — Gravity · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon's gravity pulls on the oceans and helps make the tides, the sea rising and falling along the shore about twice a day. Who acts: gravity, sea. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/16/) [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/) / [Gravity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/) / 16 # Gravity, sentence 16 The Moon's gravity pulls on the oceans and helps make the tides, the sea rising and falling along the shore about twice a day. **Who acts:** gravity, sea · **What happens:** pull, help, make, rise, fall · **To what, where:** tides, shore 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 (gravity, sea), 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:16 # text = The Moon's gravity pulls on the oceans and helps make the tides, the sea rising and falling along the shore about twice a day. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 tides tide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 20 along along ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 26 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | present | the Moon's gravity | | | | | on the oceans | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on ocean=Theme | | 2 | **help** | present | the Moon's gravity *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | the Moon's gravity *not said here* | the tides | | | day | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tide=Product | | 4 | **rise** | gerund | the sea | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fall** | gerund | the sea *not said here* | | | the shore | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along shore=Location | 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:006-gravity.lesson:16`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Gravity, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/15/) - next →: [Gravity, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/)