--- title: Thread a rope through several pulleys and the load hangs on many len… — Pulleys, gears and big machines · tree and pragmatics description: Thread a rope through several pulleys and the load hangs on many lengths of rope that share its weight, so a builder pulls with much less force, but must pull much more rope. Who acts: you, load, many lengths, builder. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, load, many lengths, builder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:035-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines.lesson:1 # text = Thread a rope through several pulleys and the load hangs on many lengths of rope that share its weight, so a builder pulls with much less force, but must pull much more rope. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 035-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Thread thread VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 pulleys pulley NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 9 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 lengths length NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:det 17 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl:relcl 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 builder builder NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 28 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 pull pull VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 much much ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 amod _ _ 35 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **thread** | imperative | you *not said here* | a rope | | several pulleys | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | | 2 | **hang** | present | the load | | | many lengths of rope | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on length=Location | | 3 | **share** | present | many lengths of rope | rope's weight | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pull** | present | a builder | | | | | with less force | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with force=Beneficiary | | 5 | **pull** | must | a builder *not said here* | more rope | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | 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. **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:035-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Pulleys, gears and big machines, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/35-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines/0/) - next →: [Pulleys, gears and big machines, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/35-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/35-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines/)