Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 1

Push down on the long handle of a screwdriver jammed under a paint tin lid, and the short end near the rim pushes up so hard that the lid pops off.

Who acts: you, short end, lid · What happens: push down, jam, push up, pop off · To what, where: screwdriver, tin lid

This is a sentence of the lesson «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» of the physics 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 (you, short end, lid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Push	compound:prt
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 handle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 handle	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 handle	amod
6	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Push	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 screwdriver	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 screwdriver	det
9	screwdriver	screwdriver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handle	nmod
10	jammed	jam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 screwdriver	acl
11	under	under	ADP	_	15 lid	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lid	det
13	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tin	compound
14	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lid	compound
15	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jammed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pushes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pushes	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 end	det
19	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 end	amod
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pushes	nsubj
21	near	near	ADP	_	23 rim	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rim	det
23	rim	rim	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 end	nmod
24	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Push	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 pushes	compound:prt
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 hard	advmod
27	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 pushes	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 pops	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lid	det
30	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pops	nsubj
31	pops	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hard	advcl
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 pops	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Push	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	push down	imperative	you not said here			on the long handle of a screwdriver	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on handle=Theme
2	jam	participle		a screwdriver not said here	a tin lid		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme under lid=Destination
3	push up	present	the short end near the rim			hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	pop off	present	the lid				vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:033-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push.lesson:1.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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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