--- title: A quick pull on a tablecloth can leave the dishes behind because the… — Speed: fast and slow · tree and pragmatics description: A quick pull on a tablecloth can leave the dishes behind because they are slow to start moving, but a slow pull drags them with it. Who acts: quick pull, dishes, slow pull. 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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 (quick pull, dishes, slow pull), 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:11 # text = A quick pull on a tablecloth can leave the dishes behind because they are slow to start moving, but a slow pull drags them with it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tablecloth tablecloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 behind behind ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 drags drag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | can | a quick pull on a tablecloth | the dishes | | | | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | dishes *= dish* | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **start** | to-infinitive | dishes *= dish* *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **move** | gerund | dishes *= dish* *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **drag** | present | a slow pull | dishes *= dish* | | | | with tablecloth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:036-speed-fast-and-slow.lesson:11`. **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 ×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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/10/) - next →: [Speed: fast and slow, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/)