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title: Archimedes, a Greek thinker, said that with a long enough lever and… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push · tree and pragmatics
description: Archimedes, a Greek thinker, said that with a long enough lever and a place to stand he could move the Earth. Who acts: Archimedes. 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
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# Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 8

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Archimedes, a Greek thinker, said that with a long enough lever and a place to stand he could move the Earth.

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**Who acts:** Archimedes · **What happens:** say, stand, move · **To what, where:** Earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Archimedes), 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:8
# text = Archimedes, a Greek thinker, said that with a long enough lever and a place to stand he could move the Earth.
# 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	Archimedes	Archimedes	PROPN	NNP	_	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thinker	thinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lever	lever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Archimedes |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | to-infinitive | Archimedes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | could | Archimedes | the Earth |  |  |  | with a enough lever and a place | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=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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