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title: When two forces are equal and opposite, as in a tug of war where nob… — Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop · tree and pragmatics
description: When two forces are equal and opposite, as in a tug of war where nobody wins, they cancel and nothing changes. Who acts: two forces, nobody, grass, nothing. 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
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# Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 4

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When two forces are equal and opposite, as in a tug of war where nobody wins, they cancel and nothing changes.

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**Who acts:** two forces, nobody, grass, nothing · **What happens:** be, win, cancel, change, tug · **To what, where:** war

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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 (two forces, nobody, grass, nothing), 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:4
# text = When two forces are equal and opposite, as in a tug of war where nobody wins, they cancel and nothing changes.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tug	tug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cancel	cancel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
23	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **is** | present | two forces |  |  |  |  | equal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | two forces *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cancel** | present | grass |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **change** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tug** |  |  | war |  |  |  |  | nom tug «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:4`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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