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title: Kick a football and your foot pushes it for a split second; the hard… — Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop · tree and pragmatics
description: Kick a football and your foot pushes it for a split second; the harder the kick, the faster it flies. Who acts: you, foot, kick. A sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 1

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Kick a football and your foot pushes it for a split second; the harder the kick, the faster it flies.

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**Who acts:** you, foot, kick · **What happens:** kick, push, fly · **To what, where:** football

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop» 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, foot, kick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:004-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop.lesson:1
# text = Kick a football and your foot pushes it for a split second; the harder the kick, the faster it flies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 004-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop.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 ×2
1	Kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	split	split	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **kick** | imperative | you *not said here* | a football |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent football=Patient |
| 2 | **push** | present | your foot | football |  |  | second |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | present | kick |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:004-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop.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 ×2. **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/).

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