--- title: A charged balloon sticks to a wall because it pulls on the charges i… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics description: A charged balloon sticks to a wall because it pulls on the charges in the wall; on a damp day the charge leaks away and it falls sooner. Who acts: charged balloon, balloon, charge. 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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 (charged balloon, balloon, charge), 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:7 # text = A charged balloon sticks to a wall because it pulls on the charges in the wall; on a damp day the charge leaks away and it falls sooner. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 charged charge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sticks stick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 charges charge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 leaks leak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 25 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **charge** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stick** | present | a charged balloon | | | | | to a wall | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **pull** | present | balloon | the charges | | the wall | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | | 4 | **leak away** | present | the charge | | | | day | away *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **fall** | present | charge | | | | | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:7`. **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 ×2. **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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