--- title: Moving things keep moving the way they are moving until something st… — Speed: fast and slow · tree and pragmatics description: Moving things keep moving the way they are moving until something stops or turns them; this is called inertia, and it is why you lurch forward when the car brakes. Who acts: Moving things, things, something, way. 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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 (Moving things, things, something, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:036-speed-fast-and-slow.lesson:1 # text = Moving things keep moving the way they are moving until something stops or turns them; this is called inertia, and it is why you lurch forward when the car brakes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 036-speed-fast-and-slow.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 until until SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 20 inertia inertia NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 conj _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lurch lurch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl:relcl _ _ 28 forward forward ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 31 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 brakes brake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | present | Moving things | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **move** | gerund | Moving things *not said here* | the way | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 4 | **move** | present · progressive | things *= thing* | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | present | something | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **turn** | present | something *not said here* | things *= thing* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 7 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 8 | **is** | present | way | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **lurch** | present | you | | | | | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **brake** | present | the car | | | | | | 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:036-speed-fast-and-slow.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Speed: fast and slow, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/0/) - next →: [Speed: fast and slow, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/)