--- title: Swing a ball on a string round your head: the string keeps pulling t… — The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them · tree and pragmatics description: Swing a ball on a string round your head: the string keeps pulling the ball towards your hand and bends its path into a circle. Who acts: you, string. 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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, string), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:0 # text = Swing a ball on a string round your head: the string keeps pulling the ball towards your hand and bends its path into a circle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Swing swing VERB VB Mood=Imp 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 round round ADP IN _ 9 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 towards towards ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swing** | imperative | you *not said here* | a ball | | a string | | round your head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme on string=Source round head=Trajectory | | 2 | **keep** | present | the string | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pull** | gerund | the string *not said here* | the ball | | your hand | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme towards hand=Destination | | 4 | **bend** | present | the string *not said here* | string's path | | a circle | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent path=Material into circle=Product | 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:physics:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Why things fall: the apple and the pul…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/18/) - next →: [The Moon, the planets and the pull tha…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/2-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull/)