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title: Tongs and tweezers are levers pressed in the middle; they give less… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push · tree and pragmatics
description: Tongs and tweezers are levers pressed in the middle; they give less force but more control, so they suit careful work. Who acts: Tongs. 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 pragmatic
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# Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 14

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Tongs and tweezers are levers pressed in the middle; they give less force but more control, so they suit careful work.

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**Who acts:** Tongs · **What happens:** be, press, give, suit · **To what, where:** levers, middle, less force, careful work

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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 (Tongs), 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:14
# text = Tongs and tweezers are levers pressed in the middle; they give less force but more control, so they suit careful work.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	Tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	tweezers	tweezer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	levers	lever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	suit	suit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Tongs and tweezers | levers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **press** | participle |  | levers *not said here* |  | the middle |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | present | tongs *= tong* | less force but more control |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme |
| 4 | **suit** | present | tongs *= tong* | careful work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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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