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title: A nutcracker squeezes hardest on a nut placed close to the hinge. — Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push · tree and pragmatics
description: A nutcracker squeezes hardest on a nut placed close to the hinge. Who acts: nutcracker. 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 every clause.
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# Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 11

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A nutcracker squeezes hardest on a nut placed close to the hinge.

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**Who acts:** nutcracker · **What happens:** squeeze, place · **To what, where:** nut

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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 (nutcracker), 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:11
# text = A nutcracker squeezes hardest on a nut placed close to the hinge.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nutcracker	nutcracker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	squeezes	squeeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hardest	hard	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	close	close	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hinge	hinge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **squeeze** | present | a nutcracker |  |  |  |  | on a nut; hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on nut=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  | a nut *not said here* |  |  |  | to the hinge; close *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=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:physics:033-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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