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title: Walking up a long gentle ramp is easier than climbing a steep ladder… — Simple machines and how they help · tree and pragmatics
description: Walking up a long gentle ramp is easier than climbing a steep ladder, but the path is longer. Who acts: Walking, path. 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.
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# Simple machines and how they help, sentence 5

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Walking up a long gentle ramp is easier than climbing a steep ladder, but the path is longer.

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**Who acts:** Walking, path · **What happens:** walk, be, climb · **To what, where:** long gentle ramp, steep ladder

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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 (Walking, path), 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:5
# text = Walking up a long gentle ramp is easier than climbing a steep ladder, but the path is longer.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ramp	ramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | a long gentle ramp |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up ramp=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | Walking |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **climb** | gerund | Walking *not said here* | a steep ladder |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ladder=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the path |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:5`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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