--- title: Two people pushing a heavy wardrobe add their pushes together, and o… — Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop · tree and pragmatics description: Two people pushing a heavy wardrobe add their pushes together, and once it is sliding it is a bit easier to keep it going, because the floor grips it a bit less once it moves. Who acts: Two people, wardrobe, floor, people. 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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 (Two people, wardrobe, floor, people), 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:11 # text = Two people pushing a heavy wardrobe add their pushes together, and once it is sliding it is a bit easier to keep it going, because the floor grips it a bit less once it moves. # 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): no change 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 pushing push VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wardrobe wardrobe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 pushes push NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 once once SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 sliding slide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 parataxis _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 grips grip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 35 once once SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | gerund | Two people *not said here* | a heavy wardrobe | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wardrobe=Theme | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Two people | people's pushes | | | | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent push=Patient | | 3 | **slide** | present · progressive | wardrobe | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | wardrobe | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; easy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | wardrobe *not said here* | wardrobe | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | gerund | wardrobe *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **grip** | present | the floor | wardrobe | | | | less *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 8 | **move** | present | floor | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **push** | | people | | | | | | nom push «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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