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title: Your hand does not sink into a table because the electrons in your h… — What is everything made of? · tree and pragmatics
description: Your hand does not sink into a table because the electrons in your hand and in the table push each other away. Who acts: hand, electrons. A sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# What is everything made of?, sentence 15

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Your hand does not sink into a table because the electrons in your hand and in the table push each other away.

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**Who acts:** hand, electrons · **What happens:** not sink, push away · **To what, where:** table, each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What is everything made of?» of the chemistry 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 (hand, electrons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:001-what-is-everything-made-of.lesson:15
# text = Your hand does not sink into a table because the electrons in your hand and in the table push each other away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 001-what-is-everything-made-of.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	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	electrons	electron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	19	obj	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	fixed	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **sink** | present · do-support | Your hand |  |  | a table |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **push away** | present | the electrons in your hand and the table | each |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |

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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:chemistry:001-what-is-everything-made-of.lesson:15`.

**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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