--- title: A car jack uses a screw or a liquid pump so that many small easy tur… — Pulleys, gears and big machines · tree and pragmatics description: A car jack uses a screw or a liquid pump so that many small easy turns of a handle add up to lifting a whole car. Who acts: car jack, many small easy turns. 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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 (car jack, many small easy turns), 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:14 # text = A car jack uses a screw or a liquid pump so that many small easy turns of a handle add up to lifting a whole car. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 jack jack NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 screw screw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 liquid liquid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 pump pump NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 so so SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 to to SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 23 lifting lift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | a car jack | a screw or a liquid pump | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screw=Patient | | 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | many small easy turns of a handle | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **lift** | gerund | many small easy turns of a handle *not said here* | a whole car | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=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:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Pulleys, gears and big machines, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/35-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines/13/) - next →: [Pulleys, gears and big machines, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/35-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/35-pulleys-gears-and-big-machines/)