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title: Push down on the long handle of a screwdriver jammed under a paint t… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push · tree and pragmatics
description: Push down on the long handle of a screwdriver jammed under a paint tin lid, and the short end near the rim pushes up so hard that the lid pops off. Who acts: you, short end, lid. A sentence of the lesson «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» of the physics course of Mova's primary school
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# Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 1

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Push down on the long handle of a screwdriver jammed under a paint tin lid, and the short end near the rim pushes up so hard that the lid pops off.

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**Who acts:** you, short end, lid · **What happens:** push down, jam, push up, pop off · **To what, where:** screwdriver, tin lid

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» 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 (you, short end, lid), 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:1
# text = Push down on the long handle of a screwdriver jammed under a paint tin lid, and the short end near the rim pushes up so hard that the lid pops off.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	screwdriver	screwdriver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	jammed	jam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	near	near	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	pops	pop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
32	off	off	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **push down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the long handle of a screwdriver | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on handle=Theme |
| 2 | **jam** | participle |  | a screwdriver *not said here* |  | a tin lid |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme under lid=Destination |
| 3 | **push up** | present | the short end near the rim |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pop off** | present | the lid |  |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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, R6-punct-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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