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title: A balloon let go without its knot squeezes air out of its neck, and… — Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop · tree and pragmatics
description: A balloon let go without its knot squeezes air out of its neck, and the air rushing out pushes the balloon the other way. Who acts: balloon, air. 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 t
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# Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 15

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A balloon let go without its knot squeezes air out of its neck, and the air rushing out pushes the balloon the other way.

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**Who acts:** balloon, air · **What happens:** let, go, squeeze out, rush out, push · **To what, where:** balloon, air

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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 (balloon, air), 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:15
# text = A balloon let go without its knot squeezes air out of its neck, and the air rushing out pushes the balloon the other way.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:poss
7	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | participle |  | a balloon *not said here* |  |  |  | without balloon's knot | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | a balloon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **squeeze out** | present | a balloon | air |  |  |  | of balloon's neck; out *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent air=Theme of neck=Trajectory |
| 4 | **rush out** | gerund | the air *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **push** | present | the air | the balloon |  |  |  | the other way *obl:unmarked* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balloon=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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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