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title: A long lever like a fishing rod turns a small movement of the hand i… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push · tree and pragmatics
description: A long lever like a fishing rod turns a small movement of the hand into a big, fast movement at the tip. Who acts: long lever. 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 ever
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# Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 15

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A long lever like a fishing rod turns a small movement of the hand into a big, fast movement at the tip.

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**Who acts:** long lever · **What happens:** turn, move · **To what, where:** small movement, big fast movement, hand

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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 (long lever), 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:15
# text = A long lever like a fishing rod turns a small movement of the hand into a big, fast movement at the tip.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lever	lever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **turn** | present | a long lever like a fishing rod | a small movement of the hand |  | a big fast movement at the tip |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent movement=Theme into movement=Trajectory |
| 2 | **move** |  |  | the hand |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: of=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. **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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