--- title: The more mass something has, the harder it is to start, stop or turn… — Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop · tree and pragmatics description: The more mass something has, the harder it is to start, stop or turn, so a full trolley is harder to push and to stop than an empty one. Who acts: something, mass, full trolley. 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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 (something, mass, full trolley), 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:12 # text = The more mass something has, the harder it is to start, stop or turn, so a full trolley is harder to push and to stop than an empty one. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 3 mass mass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 advcl _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 trolley trolley NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 parataxis _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | something | mass | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | mass | | | | | start *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stop** | infinitive | mass *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **turn** | infinitive | mass *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | a full trolley | | | | | than a empty one; hard *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **push** | to-infinitive | a full trolley *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stop** | to-infinitive | a full trolley *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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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