--- title: A heavy, fast bowling ball passes its push on to the pins, and the p… — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics description: A heavy, fast bowling ball passes its push on to the pins, and the pins push each other; a light ball at the same speed would leave most pins standing. Who acts: heavy fast bowling ball, pins, light ball, ball. 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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 (heavy fast bowling ball, pins, light ball, ball), 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:16 # text = A heavy, fast bowling ball passes its push on to the pins, and the pins push each other; a light ball at the same speed would leave most pins standing. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 bowling bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pins pin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pins pin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 18 obj _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 fixed _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 29 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 31 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 32 advmod _ _ 32 pins pin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 acl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | present | a heavy fast bowling ball | ball's push | | the pins | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent push=Theme on pin=Destination | | 2 | **push** | present | the pins | each | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | would | a light ball at the same speed | pins | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | gerund | pins *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **push** | | ball | | | | | | nom push «act intransitive»: poss=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:005-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us.lesson:16`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Friction: the grip that stops and helps, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/6-friction-the-grip/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/)