Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 9
In a tug of war where nobody moves, both teams pull just as hard in opposite directions, so the forces cancel.
Who acts: nobody, teams, forces · What happens: move, pull, cancel, tug · To what, where: tug, war
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop» of the physics 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 (nobody, teams, forces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 tug | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tug | det |
| 3 | tug | tug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pull | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 war | case |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tug | nmod |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 moves | advmod |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 moves | nsubj |
| 8 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tug | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pull | punct |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 teams | det |
| 11 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pull | nsubj |
| 12 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 hard | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 hard | advmod |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 pull | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 directions | case |
| 17 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 directions | amod |
| 18 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pull | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pull | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 cancel | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forces | det |
| 22 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cancel | nsubj |
| 23 | cancel | cancel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pull | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pull | punct |
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 | move | present | nobody | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pull | present | both teams | a tug of war | in opposite directions; hard property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | cancel | present | the forces | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tug | war | nom tug «act transitive»: of=patient |
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, 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:physics:004-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop.lesson:9.
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 ×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.
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