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title: Every push comes in a pair: when you push something, it pushes you b… — Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop · tree and pragmatics
description: Every push comes in a pair: when you push something, it pushes you back just as hard. Who acts: push, you, trolley. 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 every clause.
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# Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 13

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Every push comes in a pair: when you push something, it pushes you back just as hard.

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**Who acts:** push, you, trolley · **What happens:** come, push, push back · **To what, where:** pair, something, you

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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 (push, you, 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:13
# text = Every push comes in a pair: when you push something, it pushes you back just as hard.
# 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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | present | every push |  |  | a pair |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location |
| 2 | **push** | present | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 3 | **push back** | present | trolley | you |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:13`.

**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): no change. **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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