--- title: Heavier objects need a bigger force to start them moving or to stop… — Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels · tree and pragmatics description: Heavier objects need a bigger force to start them moving or to stop them. Who acts: Heavier objects. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/) / 17 # Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 17 Heavier objects need a bigger force to start them moving or to stop them. **Who acts:** Heavier objects · **What happens:** need, start, move, stop · **To what, where:** bigger force, forces 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 (Heavier objects), 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:17 # text = Heavier objects need a bigger force to start them moving or to stop them. # 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 1 Heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 xcomp _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Heavier objects | a bigger force | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot force=Theme | | 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | Heavier objects *not said here* | forces *= force* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **move** | gerund | Heavier objects *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Heavier objects *not said here* | forces *= force* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality | 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:world:085-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels.lesson:17`. **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. **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, pulls, friction and wheels, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/16/) - next →: [Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/)