--- title: In Newton's cradle, swing one ball in and one flies out the other si… — Swings and pendulums · tree and pragmatics description: In Newton's cradle, swing one ball in and one flies out the other side, swing two in and two fly out, because the knock passes through the still balls. Who acts: you, one, two, knock. 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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, one, two, knock), 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:15 # text = In Newton's cradle, swing one ball in and one flies out the other side, swing two in and two fly out, because the knock passes through the still balls. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Newton Newton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 cradle cradle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 swing swing VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nsubj _ _ 12 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 swing swing VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nsubj _ _ 23 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 30 through through ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 still still ADJ JJ _ 33 amod _ _ 33 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swing** | imperative | you *not said here* | one ball | | Newton's cradle | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme in cradle=Location | | 2 | **fly out** | present | one | the other side | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location side=Theme | | 3 | **swing** | infinitive | you *not said here* | two | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent two=Theme | | 4 | **fly out** | present | two | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pass** | present | the knock | | | the still balls | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through ball=Location | 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. 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