--- title: A lever is a stiff bar that turns round a fixed point called a pivot… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push · tree and pragmatics description: A lever is a stiff bar that turns round a fixed point called a pivot, and it lets a small push do a big job. Who acts: lever, stiff bar, fixed point, small push. 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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 (lever, stiff bar, fixed point, small push), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:033-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push.lesson:0 # text = A lever is a stiff bar that turns round a fixed point called a pivot, and it lets a small push do a big job. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 033-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lever lever NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 round round ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 acl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pivot pivot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a lever | a stiff bar | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | present | a stiff bar | | | a fixed point | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round point=Trajectory | | 3 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **call** | participle | a fixed point *not said here* | a pivot | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | present | lever | a small push | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | infinitive | a small push *not said here* | a big job | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=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:physics:033-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push.lesson:0`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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