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title: Levers can also swap the other way, giving up force for speed and re… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push · tree and pragmatics
description: Levers can also swap the other way, giving up force for speed and reach, which is how your arm and a fishing rod flick things far and fast. Who acts: Levers, force, arm. A sentence of the lesson «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 3

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Levers can also swap the other way, giving up force for speed and reach, which is how your arm and a fishing rod flick things far and fast.

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**Who acts:** Levers, force, arm · **What happens:** swap, give up, be, arm, flick · **To what, where:** other way, force, things

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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 (Levers, force, arm), 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:3
# text = Levers can also swap the other way, giving up force for speed and reach, which is how your arm and a fishing rod flick things far and fast.
# 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 ×2
1	Levers	lever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	swap	swap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	flick	flick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **swap** | can | Levers | the other way |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **give up** | gerund | Levers *not said here* | force |  |  |  | for speed and reach | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Source |
| 3 | **be** | present | force *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **arm** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **flick** | infinitive | your arm and a fishing rod | things |  |  |  | far *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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**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:3`.

**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 ×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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