--- title: Rub a balloon on your hair and electrons move from your hair to the… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics description: Rub a balloon on your hair and electrons move from your hair to the balloon; opposite charges pull, so your hair reaches for the balloon, while hairs with the same charge push each other apart and stand on end. Who acts: you, electrons, opposite charges, hair. 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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, electrons, opposite charges, hair), 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:1 # text = Rub a balloon on your hair and electrons move from your hair to the balloon; opposite charges pull, so your hair reaches for the balloon, while hairs with the same charge push each other apart and stand on end. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rub rub VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 electrons electron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 charges charge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 30 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis 36 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 35 obj _ _ 37 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 fixed _ _ 38 apart apart ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 41 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rub** | imperative | you *not said here* | a balloon | | your hair | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent balloon=Theme on hair=Destination | | 2 | **move** | present | electrons | | | your hair | | to the balloon | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hair=Initial\_Location to balloon=Destination | | 3 | **pull** | present | opposite charges | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **reach** | present | your hair | | | | | for the balloon | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **push** | present | hairs with the same charge | each | | | | apart *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | | 6 | **stand** | infinitive | hairs with the same charge *not said here* | | | | on end | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | 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:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:1`. **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, 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. 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