--- title: Friction slows things down, but it also lets you walk, stop and hold… — Friction: the grip that stops and helps · tree and pragmatics description: Friction slows things down, but it also lets you walk, stop and hold things, and the bumpy soles of your shoes are made to grip. Who acts: Friction, you, bumpy soles. 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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 (Friction, you, bumpy soles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:006-friction-the-grip.lesson:2 # text = Friction slows things down, but it also lets you walk, stop and hold things, and the bumpy soles of your shoes are made to grip. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 006-friction-the-grip.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Friction friction NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 also also ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 bumpy bumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 soles sole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 grip grip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slow down** | present | Friction | things | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 2 | **let** | present | Friction | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **walk** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | things | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present · passive | | the bumpy soles of your shoes | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **grip** | to-infinitive | the bumpy soles of your shoes *not said here* | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:006-friction-the-grip.lesson:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Friction: the grip that stops and helps, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/6-friction-the-grip/1/) - next →: [Friction: the grip that stops and helps, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/6-friction-the-grip/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/6-friction-the-grip/)