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title: Bathroom scales measure how hard you press on them: the spring insid… — The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them · tree and pragmatics
description: Bathroom scales measure how hard you press on them: the spring inside squashes more when you press harder. Who acts: Bathroom scales, you, spring. A sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them, sentence 12

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Bathroom scales measure how hard you press on them: the spring inside squashes more when you press harder.

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**Who acts:** Bathroom scales, you, spring · **What happens:** measure, press, squash · **To what, where:** more

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them» 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 (Bathroom scales, you, spring), 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:12
# text = Bathroom scales measure how hard you press on them: the spring inside squashes more when you press harder.
# 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
1	Bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	measure	measure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	press	press	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
14	squashes	squash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	press	press	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **measure** | present | Bathroom scales |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **press** | present | you |  |  |  |  | on scales *= scale*; hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on they=Theme |
| 3 | **squash** | present | the spring | more |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 4 | **press** | present | you |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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:002-the-moon-the-planets-and-the-pull.lesson:12`.

**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. **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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