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title: Balanced forces are equal and opposite, so they do not change an obj… — Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels · tree and pragmatics
description: Balanced forces are equal and opposite, so they do not change an object's movement. Who acts: Balanced forces, forces, object. A sentence of the lesson «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 13

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Balanced forces are equal and opposite, so they do not change an object's movement.

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**Who acts:** Balanced forces, forces, object · **What happens:** balance, be, not change, move · **To what, where:** movement

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» of the world 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 (Balanced forces, forces, object), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:085-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels.lesson:13
# text = Balanced forces are equal and opposite, so they do not change an object's movement.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 085-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Balanced	balance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
14	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **balance** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Balanced forces |  |  |  |  | equal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Balanced forces *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | forces *= force* | a object's movement |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Patient |
| 5 | **move** |  | a object |  |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:world:085-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels.lesson:13`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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