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title: Because a moving body keeps moving, when a bus brakes you lurch forw… — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Because a moving body keeps moving, when a bus brakes you lurch forward, and if you jump off a swing while it is moving you fly on at its speed and land badly, while the empty seat swings back towards you. Who acts: moving body, bus, you, body. A sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body movi
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# Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 3

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Because a moving body keeps moving, when a bus brakes you lurch forward, and if you jump off a swing while it is moving you fly on at its speed and land badly, while the empty seat swings back towards you.

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**Who acts:** moving body, bus, you, body, empty seat · **What happens:** move, keep, brake, lurch, jump off, fly · **To what, where:** swing, speed

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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 (moving body, bus, you, body), 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:3
# text = Because a moving body keeps moving, when a bus brakes you lurch forward, and if you jump off a swing while it is moving you fly on at its speed and land badly, while the empty seat swings back towards you.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	brakes	brake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lurch	lurch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	land	land	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
35	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	swings	swing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
42	back	back	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod
43	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | a moving body |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | a moving body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **brake** | present | a bus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lurch** | present | you |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **jump off** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a swing |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swing=Trajectory |
| 7 | **move** | present · progressive | body |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **fly** | present | you |  |  | body's speed |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on speed=Location |
| 9 | **land** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **swing back** | present | the empty seat |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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