---
title: A ramp lets you lift a load with less force by moving it along a lon… — Simple machines and how they help · tree and pragmatics
description: A ramp lets you lift a load with less force by moving it along a longer path. Who acts: ramp, you. A sentence of the lesson «Simple machines and how they help» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Simple machines and how they help](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/) / 14

# Simple machines and how they help, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A ramp lets you lift a load with less force by moving it along a longer path.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** ramp, you · **What happens:** let, lift, move · **To what, where:** load, longer path

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Simple machines and how they help» of the world 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:052-simple-machines.lesson:14
# text = A ramp lets you lift a load with less force by moving it along a longer path.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 052-simple-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
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	lift	lift	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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | a ramp |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift** | infinitive | you | a load |  |  |  | with less force | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | you *not said here* | load |  | a longer path |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme along path=Trajectory |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:world:052-simple-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. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Simple machines and how they help, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/13/)
- next →: [Simple machines and how they help, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/15/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/)