--- title: Wind pushes on a sail, and the bigger the sail and the stronger the… — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics description: Wind pushes on a sail, and the bigger the sail and the stronger the wind, the bigger the push; sailors can even sail partly against the wind by angling the sail. Who acts: Wind, sailors. 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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 (Wind, sailors), 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:12 # text = Wind pushes on a sail, and the bigger the sail and the stronger the wind, the bigger the push; sailors can even sail partly against the wind by angling the sail. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sail sail NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sail sail NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 sail sail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 27 partly partly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 28 against against ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 31 by by SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 angling angle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sail sail NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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** | present | Wind | | | | | on a sail | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on sail=Theme | | 2 | **sail** | can | sailors | | | | | against the wind; partly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **angle** | gerund | sailors *not said here* | the sail | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sail=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. 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