--- title: Two batteries in a row pushing the same way push about twice as hard… — Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and ma… · tree and pragmatics description: Two batteries in a row pushing the same way push about twice as hard; if one is turned round, they push against each other and the bulb hardly lights. Who acts: Two batteries, batteries, bulb. 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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 (Two batteries, batteries, bulb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:12 # text = Two batteries in a row pushing the same way push about twice as hard; if one is turned round, they push against each other and the bulb hardly lights. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 pushing push VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 8 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 10 advmod _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ _ 20 round round ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 24 against against ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 23 obl _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 fixed _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bulb bulb NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 lights light VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | gerund | Two batteries in a row *not said here* | the same way | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 2 | **push about** | present | Two batteries in a row | | | | | hard, twice *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn round** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | one | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **push** | present | batteries *= battery* | | | | | against each | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against each=Theme | | 5 | **light** | present | the bulb | | | | | hardly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:12`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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. 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