--- title: A toy car rolls further on a smooth floor than on a carpet, because… — Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop · tree and pragmatics description: A toy car rolls further on a smooth floor than on a carpet, because the carpet's fibres catch the wheels and push back much more. Who acts: toy car, fibres. 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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 (toy car, fibres), 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:8 # text = A toy car rolls further on a smooth floor than on a carpet, because the carpet's fibres catch the wheels and push back much more. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 carpet carpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 carpet carpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | present | a toy car | | | a smooth floor than a carpet | | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory | | 2 | **catch** | present | the carpet's fibres | the wheels | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme | | 3 | **push back** | present | the carpet's fibres *not said here* | more | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:physics:004-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Pushes and pulls: what makes things mo…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/4-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop/7/) - next →: [Pushes and pulls: what makes things mo…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/4-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/4-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop/)