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title: Moving your legs and leaning at the right moments adds a little ener… — Swings and pendulums · tree and pragmatics
description: Moving your legs and leaning at the right moments adds a little energy each swing; kicking at the wrong moments slows you down. Who acts: Moving, kicking. A sentence of the lesson «Swings and pendulums» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Swings and pendulums, sentence 5

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Moving your legs and leaning at the right moments adds a little energy each swing; kicking at the wrong moments slows you down.

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**Who acts:** Moving, kicking · **What happens:** move, lean, add, kick, slow down · **To what, where:** legs, little energy, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Moving, kicking), 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:5
# text = Moving your legs and leaning at the right moments adds a little energy each swing; kicking at the wrong moments slows you down.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 |  | your legs |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |
| 2 | **lean** | gerund |  |  |  |  | moment |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Moving | a little energy |  |  |  | each swing *obl:unmarked* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient |
| 4 | **kick** | gerund |  |  |  |  | moment |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **slow down** | present | kicking | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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:5`.

**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): R7-rel-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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