--- title: If you push far from the pivot, a small force can lift a heavy load… — Simple machines and how they help · tree and pragmatics description: If you push far from the pivot, a small force can lift a heavy load that sits close to the pivot — that is how a long crowbar lifts a big stone. Who acts: you, small force, heavy load, that. 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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, small force, heavy load, that), 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:3 # text = If you push far from the pivot, a small force can lift a heavy load that sits close to the pivot — that is how a long crowbar lifts a big stone. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pivot pivot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pivot pivot NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 — - PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 24 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 crowbar crowbar NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **push** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | far *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lift** | can | a small force | a heavy load | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | present | a heavy load | | | | | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | that | | | | | how *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **lift** | present | a long crowbar | a big stone | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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:world:052-simple-machines.lesson:3`. **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): no change. **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: [Simple machines and how they help, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/2/) - next →: [Simple machines and how they help, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/)