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title: Two meshing gears turn in opposite directions, so in a row of gears… — Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Two meshing gears turn in opposite directions, so in a row of gears the odd-numbered ones turn like the first and the even-numbered ones turn the other way. Who acts: Two meshing gears, numbered ones. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» of the physics course of Mov
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# Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★, sentence 5

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Two meshing gears turn in opposite directions, so in a row of gears the odd-numbered ones turn like the first and the even-numbered ones turn the other way.

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**Who acts:** Two meshing gears, numbered ones · **What happens:** turn, number · **To what, where:** opposite directions, row, other way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» 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 meshing gears, numbered ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:5
# text = Two meshing gears turn in opposite directions, so in a row of gears the odd-numbered ones turn like the first and the even-numbered ones turn the other way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	meshing	mesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
3	gears	gear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gears	gear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **turn** | present | Two meshing gears |  |  | opposite directions |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
| 2 | **number** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | present | the numbered ones |  |  | a row of gears |  | like the first | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in row=Trajectory |
| 4 | **number** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | present | the numbered ones | the other way |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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