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title: To turn, you need a sideways push from the ground on your feet, whic… — Speed: fast and slow · tree and pragmatics
description: To turn, you need a sideways push from the ground on your feet, which is why footballers slip turning on wet grass. Who acts: you, feet, footballers. A sentence of the lesson «Speed: fast and slow» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Speed: fast and slow, sentence 16

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To turn, you need a sideways push from the ground on your feet, which is why footballers slip turning on wet grass.

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**Who acts:** you, feet, footballers · **What happens:** turn, need, be, slip · **To what, where:** sideways push, ground, wet grass

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speed: fast and slow» of the physics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, feet, footballers), 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:16
# text = To turn, you need a sideways push from the ground on your feet, which is why footballers slip turning on wet grass.
# 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	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sideways	sideway	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	footballers	footballer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | you | a sideways push |  | the ground on your feet |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot push=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | your feet |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **slip** | present | footballers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | gerund | footballers *not said here* |  |  | wet grass |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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.

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