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title: Everything is made of tiny bits that carry electric charge, and rubb… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything is made of tiny bits that carry electric charge, and rubbing two things together can move some of the tiniest, called electrons, from one onto the other. Who acts: tiny bits, rubbing. A sentence of the lesson «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» of the physics course of Mova's 
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# Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 0

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Everything is made of tiny bits that carry electric charge, and rubbing two things together can move some of the tiniest, called electrons, from one onto the other.

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**Who acts:** tiny bits, rubbing · **What happens:** make, carry, rub, move, call · **To what, where:** Everything, electric charge, two things, some, other, tiniest electrons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» 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 (tiny bits, rubbing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:0
# text = Everything is made of tiny bits that carry electric charge, and rubbing two things together can move some of the tiniest, called electrons, from one onto the other.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.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	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
25	electrons	electron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
29	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	other	other	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | Everything |  |  |  | of tiny bits | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **carry** | present | tiny bits | electric charge |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 3 | **rub** | gerund |  | two things |  |  |  | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | can | rubbing | some |  | the other |  | from one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme from one=Source onto other=Trajectory |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | the tiniest electrons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.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): 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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