--- title: In a braking car a helium balloon on a string leans backwards, becau… — Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere · tree and pragmatics description: In a braking car a helium balloon on a string leans backwards, because the heavier air sloshes forward and pushes the light balloon away, as water pushes a cork up. Who acts: helium balloon, heavier air, water. A sentence of the lesson «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» of the physics co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Rockets, record speeds and motion ever…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/) / 15 # Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere, sentence 15 In a braking car a helium balloon on a string leans backwards, because the heavier air sloshes forward and pushes the light balloon away, as water pushes a cork up. **Who acts:** helium balloon, heavier air, water · **What happens:** brake, lean, slosh, push, push up · **To what, where:** braking car, light balloon, cork This is a sentence of the lesson «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» 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 (helium balloon, heavier air, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:15 # text = In a braking car a helium balloon on a string leans backwards, because the heavier air sloshes forward and pushes the light balloon away, as water pushes a cork up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.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 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 braking brake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod 4 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 helium helium NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 backwards backward ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 16 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sloshes slosh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 19 forward forward ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cork cork NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **brake** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lean** | present | a helium balloon on a string | | | a braking car | | backward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in car=Location | | 3 | **slosh** | present | the heavier air | | | | | forward *property* | vn pour-9.5 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **push** | present | the heavier air *not said here* | the light balloon | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balloon=Theme | | 5 | **push up** | present | water | a cork | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cork=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:038-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere.lesson:15`. **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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