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title: For swings that are not too big, a big push and a small push give al… — Swings and pendulums · tree and pragmatics
description: For swings that are not too big, a big push and a small push give almost the same time for one back-and-forth. Who acts: swings, big push. 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 every clause.
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# Swings and pendulums, sentence 6

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For swings that are not too big, a big push and a small push give almost the same time for one back-and-forth.

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**Who acts:** swings, big push · **What happens:** not be, give

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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 (swings, big push), 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:6
# text = For swings that are not too big, a big push and a small push give almost the same time for one back-and-forth.
# 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 ×2
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	swings	swing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **not** **is** | present | swings |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | a big push and a small push |  |  |  | time | for swings; for one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for swing=Asset |

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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:6`.

**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 ×2. **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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