--- title: Bend a ruler between your hands: it bends and bends, then snaps, and… — Earthquakes · tree and pragmatics description: Bend a ruler between your hands: it bends and bends, then snaps, and your hands jump; the rocks store energy the same way and release it in seconds. Who acts: you, ruler, hands, rocks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ruler, hands, rocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:044-earthquakes.lesson:1 # text = Bend a ruler between your hands: it bends and bends, then snaps, and your hands jump; the rocks store energy the same way and release it in seconds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 044-earthquakes.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, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bend bend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 24 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 release release VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bend** | imperative | you *not said here* | a ruler | | your hands | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent ruler=Theme between hand=Location | | 2 | **bend** | present | ruler | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bend** | present | ruler *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **snap** | present | ruler *not said here* | | | | then | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **jump** | present | your hands | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **store** | present | the rocks | energy | | | | the same way *obl:unmarked* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 7 | **release** | present | the rocks *not said here* | energy | | | second | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source | 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](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:geography:044-earthquakes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Earthquakes, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/0/) - next →: [Earthquakes, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/44-earthquakes/)