--- title: If 4 lengths of rope hold a load in a set of pulleys, you pull with… — Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: If 4 lengths of rope hold a load in a set of pulleys, you pull with about a quarter of the force, but you must pull 4 metres of rope to lift the load 1 metre. Who acts: 4 lengths, you. 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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 (4 lengths, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:9 # text = If 4 lengths of rope hold a load in a set of pulleys, you pull with about a quarter of the force, but you must pull 4 metres of rope to lift the load 1 metre. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 lengths length NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 pulleys pulley NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 29 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det 36 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | 4 lengths of rope | a load | | a set of pulleys | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent load=Theme in set=Location | | 2 | **pull** | present | you | | | | | with a quarter of the force | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with quarter=Beneficiary | | 3 | **pull** | must | you | 4 metres of rope | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=Theme | | 4 | **lift** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the load | | | | 1 metre *obl:unmarked* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=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:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:9`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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