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title: Mass is how much stuff is in something; weight is how hard gravity p… — Measuring the world — length, mass, time and tem… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mass is how much stuff is in something; weight is how hard gravity pulls on it. Who acts: Mass, weight. A sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 3

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Mass is how much stuff is in something; weight is how hard gravity pulls on it.

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**Who acts:** Mass, weight · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** something, mass

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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 (Mass, weight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:3
# text = Mass is how much stuff is in something; weight is how hard gravity pulls on it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 090-measuring-the-world.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Mass |  |  | something |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | weight |  |  | mass |  | pull *property* | tree rules |

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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:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:3`.

**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): R7-rel-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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