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title: A rubber glove helps open a jar because soft rubber moulds into the… — Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip · tree and pragmatics
description: A rubber glove helps open a jar because soft rubber moulds into the tiny bumps on the lid and grips it. Who acts: rubber glove, soft rubber. 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 pragmatic
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# Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip, sentence 9

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A rubber glove helps open a jar because soft rubber moulds into the tiny bumps on the lid and grips it.

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**Who acts:** rubber glove, soft rubber · **What happens:** help, open, mould, grip · **To what, where:** jar, tiny bumps

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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: who acts (rubber glove, soft rubber), 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:9
# text = A rubber glove helps open a jar because soft rubber moulds into the tiny bumps on the lid and grips it.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	glove	glove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
9	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	moulds	mould	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bumps	bump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grips	grip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **help** | present | a rubber glove |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive | a rubber glove *not said here* | a jar |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jar=Theme |
| 3 | **mould** | present | soft rubber |  |  | the tiny bumps on the lid |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grip** | present | soft rubber *not said here* | jar |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:9`.

**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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