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title: A ramp lets you raise something with a smaller push over a longer di… — Wheels, axles, ramps and screws · tree and pragmatics
description: A ramp lets you raise something with a smaller push over a longer distance; a steeper ramp is shorter but harder to push up. Who acts: ramp, you, steeper ramp. A sentence of the lesson «Wheels, axles, ramps and screws» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Wheels, axles, ramps and screws, sentence 7

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A ramp lets you raise something with a smaller push over a longer distance; a steeper ramp is shorter but harder to push up.

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**Who acts:** ramp, you, steeper ramp · **What happens:** let, raise, be, push up · **To what, where:** something

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wheels, axles, ramps and screws» 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 (ramp, you, steeper ramp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:034-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws.lesson:7
# text = A ramp lets you raise something with a smaller push over a longer distance; a steeper ramp is shorter but harder to push up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 034-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ramp	ramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	steeper	steep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	ramp	ramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **let** | present | a ramp |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **raise** | infinitive | you | something |  |  |  | with a smaller push over a longer distance | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent something=Patient with push=Instrument |
| 3 | **is** | present | a steeper ramp |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a steeper ramp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **push up** | to-infinitive | a steeper ramp *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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:034-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws.lesson:7`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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