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title: Where you push matters too: a door opens easily when you push near t… — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics
description: Where you push matters too: a door opens easily when you push near the handle, far from the hinges, and hardly at all near them. Who acts: you, door. 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 o
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# Pushes and pulls all around us, sentence 4

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Where you push matters too: a door opens easily when you push near the handle, far from the hinges, and hardly at all near them.

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**Who acts:** you, door · **What happens:** push, matter, open · **To what, where:** all, handle

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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 (you, door), 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:4
# text = Where you push matters too: a door opens easily when you push near the handle, far from the hinges, and hardly at all near them.
# 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): no change
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	csubj	_	_
4	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hinges	hinge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
27	near	near	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **push** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **open** | present | a door |  |  | all |  | easily *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
| 4 | **push** | present | you |  |  | the handle |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent near handle=Trajectory |

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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:005-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us.lesson:4`.

**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): no change. **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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