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title: Grip (friction) between your shoes and the ground is what lets you p… — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Grip (friction) between your shoes and the ground is what lets you push, turn and stop; ice has a very thin, slippery wet layer on top, so there is little grip, and you walk on it like a penguin: small flat steps, weight over your front foot, hands out of your pockets. Who acts: Grip, you, ice, litt
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# Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 2

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Grip (friction) between your shoes and the ground is what lets you push, turn and stop; ice has a very thin, slippery wet layer on top, so there is little grip, and you walk on it like a penguin: small flat steps, weight over your front foot, hands out of your pockets.

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**Who acts:** Grip, you, ice, little grip · **What happens:** be, let, push, turn, stop, have · **To what, where:** thin slippery wet layer, top, ground

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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 (Grip, you, ice, little grip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:2
# text = Grip (friction) between your shoes and the ground is what lets you push, turn and stop; ice has a very thin, slippery wet layer on top, so there is little grip, and you walk on it like a penguin: small flat steps, weight over your front foot, hands out of your pockets.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
3	friction	friction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	penguin	penguin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
48	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
53	over	over	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	conj	_	_
59	out	out	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	_
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **be** | present | Grip between your shoes and the ground |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **push** | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **have** | present | ice | a thin slippery wet layer |  | top |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient |
| 7 | **be** | present | little grip |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **walk** | present | you |  |  | ground |  | like a penguin and small flat steps and weight over your front foot and hands out your pockets | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |

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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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**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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