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title: A harder kick gives a bigger push and a faster ball. — Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop · tree and pragmatics
description: A harder kick gives a bigger push and a faster ball. Who acts: harder kick. 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 6

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A harder kick gives a bigger push and a faster ball.

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**Who acts:** harder kick · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** bigger push

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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 (harder kick), 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:6
# text = A harder kick gives a bigger push and a faster ball.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **give** | present | a harder kick | a bigger push and a faster ball |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent push=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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**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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