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title: A duck's webbed feet push more water than plain toes would. — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics
description: A duck's webbed feet push more water than plain toes would. Who acts: webbed feet. 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.
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# Pushes and pulls all around us, sentence 6

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A duck's webbed feet push more water than plain toes would.

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**Who acts:** webbed feet · **What happens:** push · **To what, where:** more water

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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 (webbed feet), 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:6
# text = A duck's webbed feet push more water than plain toes would.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	webbed	web	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | would | a duck's webbed feet | more water |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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