--- title: A force can change something's shape as well as its speed, as when y… — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics description: A force can change something's shape as well as its speed, as when you squeeze a sponge; let go, and the sponge springs back and sucks air back into its holes. Who acts: force, you, sponge. 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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 (force, you, sponge), 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:14 # text = A force can change something's shape as well as its speed, as when you squeeze a sponge; let go, and the sponge springs back and sucks air back into its holes. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 12 cc _ _ 9 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 fixed _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 squeeze squeeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sponge sponge NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sponge sponge NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 springs spring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 sucks suck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 back back ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 33 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | can | a force | something's shape as shape's speed | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | | 2 | **squeeze** | present | you | a sponge | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sponge=Theme | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **spring back** | present | the sponge | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **suck back** | present | the sponge *not said here* | air | | sponge's holes | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent air=Source | 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: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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Pushes and pulls all around us, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/13/) - next →: [Pushes and pulls all around us, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/)