--- title: In a wheelbarrow the wheel is the pivot, and the load is easiest to… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push · tree and pragmatics description: In a wheelbarrow the wheel is the pivot, and the load is easiest to lift when it sits close to the wheel. Who acts: wheel, load. A sentence of the lesson «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push/10/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Levers: lifting heavy things with a li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push/) / 10 # Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 10 In a wheelbarrow the wheel is the pivot, and the load is easiest to lift when it sits close to the wheel. **Who acts:** wheel, load · **What happens:** be, lift, sit · **To what, where:** pivot, wheelbarrow 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 (wheel, load), 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:10 # text = In a wheelbarrow the wheel is the pivot, and the load is easiest to lift when it sits close to the wheel. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wheelbarrow wheelbarrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pivot pivot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 easiest easy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the wheel | the pivot | | a wheelbarrow | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the load | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lift** | to-infinitive | the load *not said here* | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sit** | present | load | | | | | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:10`. **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. 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