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title: Seesaws, scissors, wheelbarrows, bottle openers, nutcrackers, tongs… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push · tree and pragmatics
description: Seesaws, scissors, wheelbarrows, bottle openers, nutcrackers, tongs and even your own arm are all levers. Who acts: Seesaws. 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 
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# Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 4

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Seesaws, scissors, wheelbarrows, bottle openers, nutcrackers, tongs and even your own arm are all levers.

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**Who acts:** Seesaws · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** levers

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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 (Seesaws), 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:4
# text = Seesaws, scissors, wheelbarrows, bottle openers, nutcrackers, tongs and even your own arm are all levers.
# 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 ×1
1	Seesaws	seesaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wheelbarrows	wheelbarrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	openers	opener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	nutcrackers	nutcracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	levers	lever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **is a** | present | Seesaws and scissors and wheelbarrows and bottle openers and nutcrackers and tongs and your own arm | all levers |  |  |  |  | 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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**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 ×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.

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

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