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title: When you walk, your shoe pushes the ground backwards and the ground… — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics
description: When you walk, your shoe pushes the ground backwards and the ground pushes you forward, which needs grip; on wet ice your foot just slides back. Who acts: you, shoe, ground, foot. A sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls all around us» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Pushes and pulls all around us, sentence 7

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When you walk, your shoe pushes the ground backwards and the ground pushes you forward, which needs grip; on wet ice your foot just slides back.

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**Who acts:** you, shoe, ground, foot · **What happens:** walk, push, need, slide back · **To what, where:** ground, you, grip, wet ice

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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, shoe, ground, foot), 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:7
# text = When you walk, your shoe pushes the ground backwards and the ground pushes you forward, which needs grip; on wet ice your foot just slides back.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	slides	slide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | present | your shoe | the ground |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
| 3 | **push** | present | the ground | you |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | present |  | grip |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot grip=Theme |
| 5 | **slide back** | present | your foot |  |  | wet ice |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=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:7`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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