--- title: The Moon is falling towards the Earth all the time, but it also move… — Gravity · tree and pragmatics description: The Moon is falling towards the Earth all the time, but it also moves sideways so fast that it keeps missing: like a ball whirled on a string, it goes round and round, with gravity as the string; if the string snapped, the ball would fly off in a straight line. Who acts: Moon, string, ball. A senten --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/2/) [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/) / 2 # Gravity, sentence 2 The Moon is falling towards the Earth all the time, but it also moves sideways so fast that it keeps missing: like a ball whirled on a string, it goes round and round, with gravity as the string; if the string snapped, the ball would fly off in a straight line. **Who acts:** Moon, string, ball · **What happens:** fall, move, keep, miss, whirl, go · **To what, where:** Earth, ball, string, straight line 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 (Moon, string, ball), 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:2 # text = The Moon is falling towards the Earth all the time, but it also moves sideways so fast that it keeps missing: like a ball whirled on a string, it goes round and round, with gravity as the string; if the string snapped, the ball would fly off in a straight line. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 towards towards ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 also also ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 sideways sideways ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 22 missing miss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 xcomp _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 whirled whirl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 34 round round ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 round round ADV RB _ 34 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 ; ; PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 44 if if SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 snapped snap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=52:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 51 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 53 off off ADP RP _ 52 compound:prt _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 56 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **fall** | present · progressive | the Moon | | | the Earth | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards earth=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **move** | present | Moon | | | | | fast, sideways *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | Moon | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **miss** | gerund | Moon *not said here* | | | | | like a ball | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **whirl** | participle | | a ball *not said here* | | a string | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on string=Trajectory | | 6 | **go** | present | Moon | | | | | with gravity as the string; round *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with gravity=Beneficiary | | 7 | **snap** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the string | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **fly off** | would | the ball | | | a straight line | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/0/) - next →: [Gravity, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/)