Pushes and pulls all around us, sentence 1

A swimmer pushes water back and the water pushes the swimmer forward; a horse pushes the road back with its hooves and the road pushes it on.

Who acts: swimmer, water, horse, road · What happens: push back, push, push on · To what, where: water, swimmer, road

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls all around us» 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 (swimmer, water, horse, road), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 swimmer	det
2	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pushes	conj
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 pushes	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pushes	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushes	nsubj
9	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 swimmer	det
11	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushes	obj
12	forward	forward	ADV	_	9 pushes	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 pushes	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pushes	nsubj
16	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pushes	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 road	det
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pushes	obj
19	back	back	ADV	_	16 pushes	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 hooves	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hooves	nmod:poss
22	hooves	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pushes	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pushes	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 road	det
25	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pushes	nsubj
26	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 pushes	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pushes	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	26 pushes	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pushes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push back	present	a swimmer	water		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	push	present	the water	the swimmer	forward property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme
3	push back	present	a horse	the road	with horse's hooves	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
4	push on	present	the road	swimmer		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:005-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us.lesson:1.

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.

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