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title: A rocket throws hot gas out behind it and the gas pushes the rocket… — Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: A rocket throws hot gas out behind it and the gas pushes the rocket forward, so it does not need air to push on. Who acts: rocket, gas. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★, sentence 14

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A rocket throws hot gas out behind it and the gas pushes the rocket forward, so it does not need air to push on.

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**Who acts:** rocket, gas · **What happens:** throw out, push, not need, push on · **To what, where:** hot gas, gas, rocket, air

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» 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 (rocket, gas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:14
# text = A rocket throws hot gas out behind it and the gas pushes the rocket forward, so it does not need air to push on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
22	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **throw out** | present | a rocket | hot gas |  | gas |  | out *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent gas=Theme behind it=Destination |
| 2 | **push** | present | the gas | the rocket |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | gas | air |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme |
| 4 | **push on** | to-infinitive | gas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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:044-olympiad-speed-space-and-seasons.lesson:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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