--- title: Rubbing a balloon on your hair moves electrons onto the balloon, so… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics description: Rubbing a balloon on your hair moves electrons onto the balloon, so the balloon and your hair carry opposite charges and pull on each other. Who acts: Rubbing, balloon. 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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 (Rubbing, balloon), 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:5 # text = Rubbing a balloon on your hair moves electrons onto the balloon, so the balloon and your hair carry opposite charges and pull on each 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Rubbing rub VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ _ 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 _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 7 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 electrons electron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 onto onto ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 13 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 19 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 20 opposite opposite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 charges charge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 23 nmod _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 fixed _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rub** | gerund | | a balloon | | your hair | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent balloon=Theme on hair=Destination | | 2 | **move** | present | Rubbing | electrons | | the balloon | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent electron=Theme onto balloon=Trajectory | | 3 | **carry** | infinitive | the balloon and your hair | opposite charges | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | | 4 | **pull** | infinitive | the balloon and your hair *not said here* | | | | | on each | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on each=Theme | 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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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