--- title: A bouncy ball squashes and springs back, while clay squashes and sta… — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics description: A bouncy ball squashes and springs back, while clay squashes and stays squashed, warming a little. Who acts: bouncy ball, clay. A sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls all around us» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Pushes and pulls all around us](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/) / 10 # Pushes and pulls all around us, sentence 10 A bouncy ball squashes and springs back, while clay squashes and stays squashed, warming a little. **Who acts:** bouncy ball, clay · **What happens:** squash, spring back, stay, warm · **To what, where:** little This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls all around us» 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 (bouncy ball, clay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:005-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us.lesson:10 # text = A bouncy ball squashes and springs back, while clay squashes and stays squashed, warming a little. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 005-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bouncy bouncy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 squashes squash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 springs spring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 squashes squash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 warming warm VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squash** | present | a bouncy ball | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spring back** | present | a bouncy ball *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **squash** | present | clay | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stay** | present | clay *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **squash** | participle | clay *not said here* | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **warm** | gerund | a bouncy ball *not said here* | a little | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:005-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us.lesson:10`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Pushes and pulls all around us, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/9/) - next →: [Pushes and pulls all around us, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/)