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title: On a TV show, two interleaved phone books could not be pulled apart… — Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip · tree and pragmatics
description: On a TV show, two interleaved phone books could not be pulled apart even by two cars. A sentence of the lesson «Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip, sentence 12

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On a TV show, two interleaved phone books could not be pulled apart even by two cars.

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**What happens:** not pull apart · **To what, where:** two interleaved phone books, TV show

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:007-living-with-friction.lesson:12
# text = On a TV show, two interleaved phone books could not be pulled apart even by two cars.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 007-living-with-friction.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	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	interleaved	interleave	ADJ	JJ	_	9	amod	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **not** **pull apart** | could · passive |  | two interleaved phone books |  | a TV show |  | by two cars; apart *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:007-living-with-friction.lesson:12`.

**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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