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title: A crowbar with a small stone underneath as a pivot can lift a heavy… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push · tree and pragmatics
description: A crowbar with a small stone underneath as a pivot can lift a heavy stone slab; ancient builders moved giant stones with levers and ramps. Who acts: crowbar, ancient builders. A sentence of the lesson «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» of the physics course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 12

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A crowbar with a small stone underneath as a pivot can lift a heavy stone slab; ancient builders moved giant stones with levers and ramps.

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**Who acts:** crowbar, ancient builders · **What happens:** lift, move · **To what, where:** heavy stone slab, giant stones

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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 (crowbar, ancient builders), 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:12
# text = A crowbar with a small stone underneath as a pivot can lift a heavy stone slab; ancient builders moved giant stones with levers and ramps.
# 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	crowbar	crowbar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pivot	pivot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	slab	slab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	levers	lever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ramps	ramp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **lift** | can | a crowbar with a small stone as a pivot | a heavy stone slab |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slab=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | past | ancient builders | giant stones |  |  |  | with levers and ramps | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

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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): 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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