--- title: Walking on carpet can build up charge on your body, which jumps to a… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics description: Walking on carpet can build up charge on your body, which jumps to a metal door handle as a tiny spark, more often in winter when the air is dry. Who acts: Walking, charge, air. 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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 (Walking, charge, air), 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:9 # text = Walking on carpet can build up charge on your body, which jumps to a metal door handle as a tiny spark, more often in winter when the air is dry. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 carpet carpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 14 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 24 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:WRB:_ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | gerund | | | | carpet | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on carpet=Trajectory | | 2 | **build up** | can | Walking | charge | | your body | | often *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer charge=Patient | | 3 | **jump** | present | charge | | | | | to a door handle *result*; as a tiny spark | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to handle=Result | | 4 | **is** | present | the air | | | | | dry *property* | tree rules | 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:9`. **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, 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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