--- title: Stretching a rubber band stores a pull, and it springs back when let… — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics description: Stretching a rubber band stores a pull, and it springs back when let go; never fire anything at people's faces, as even a paper pellet can hurt an eye. Who acts: Stretching, pull, paper pellet. 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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 (Stretching, pull, paper pellet), 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:8 # text = Stretching a rubber band stores a pull, and it springs back when let go; never fire anything at people's faces, as even a paper pellet can hurt an eye. # 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 ×2 1 Stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 springs spring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 15 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 fire fire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 pellet pellet NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch** | gerund | | a rubber band | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent band=Patient | | 2 | **store** | present | Stretching | a pull | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pull=Theme | | 3 | **spring back** | present | pull | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | pull *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | pull *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **fire** | present | | anything | | people's faces | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent anything=Theme at face=Destination | | 7 | **hurt** | can | a paper pellet | a eye | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Patient | 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:8`. **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 ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/7/) - next →: [Pushes and pulls all around us, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/)