--- title: One fixed pulley changes the direction of the force, so you can pull… — Simple machines and how they help · tree and pragmatics description: One fixed pulley changes the direction of the force, so you can pull down to lift up; several pulleys together let a small force lift a heavy load with a longer pull of rope. Who acts: One fixed pulley, you, several pulleys, small force. 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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 (One fixed pulley, you, several pulleys, small force), 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:9 # text = One fixed pulley changes the direction of the force, so you can pull down to lift up; several pulleys together let a small force lift a heavy load with a longer pull of rope. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 pulley pulley NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 pulleys pulley NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 22 together together ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 amod _ _ 34 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **change** | present | One fixed pulley | the direction of the force | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Patient | | 3 | **pull down** | can | you | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lift up** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | several pulleys | | | | | together *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **lift** | infinitive | a small force | a heavy load | | | | with a longer pull of rope | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | | 7 | **pull** | | | rope | | | | | nom pull «act transitive»: of=patient | 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: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, 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/). - ← previous: [Simple machines and how they help, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/8/) - next →: [Simple machines and how they help, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/52-simple-machines/)