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title: At the top of a swing you stop for an instant and feel almost weight… — Swings and pendulums · tree and pragmatics
description: At the top of a swing you stop for an instant and feel almost weightless; at the bottom you feel heaviest, because the swing pulls you round the curve. Who acts: you, swing. A sentence of the lesson «Swings and pendulums» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Swings and pendulums, sentence 11

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At the top of a swing you stop for an instant and feel almost weightless; at the bottom you feel heaviest, because the swing pulls you round the curve.

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**Who acts:** you, swing · **What happens:** stop, feel, pull · **To what, where:** top, bottom, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swings and pendulums» 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 (you, swing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:010-swings-and-pendulums.lesson:11
# text = At the top of a swing you stop for an instant and feel almost weightless; at the bottom you feel heaviest, because the swing pulls you round the curve.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 010-swings-and-pendulums.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): no change
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	weightless	weightless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	round	round	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	curve	curve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **stop** | present | you |  |  | the top of a swing |  | for a instant | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location |
| 2 | **feel** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | weightless *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feel** | present | you |  |  | the bottom |  | heavy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pull** | present | the swing | you |  |  |  | round the curve | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result |

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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:physics:010-swings-and-pendulums.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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