Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push, sentence 13

Your arm is a lever with the elbow as the pivot; the muscle pulls close to the elbow, so it must pull hard, but the hand moves far and fast.

Who acts: arm, muscle, hand · What happens: be, pull, move · To what, where: lever

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 (arm, muscle, hand), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 arm	nmod:poss
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lever	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lever	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lever	det
5	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 elbow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 elbow	det
8	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lever	nmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 pivot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pivot	det
11	pivot	pivot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 elbow	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pulls	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 muscle	det
14	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pulls	nsubj
15	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lever	parataxis
16	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 pulls	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 elbow	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 elbow	det
19	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 close	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pull	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 pull	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pull	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 pull	aux
24	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lever	parataxis
25	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 pull	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 moves	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 moves	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hand	det
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 moves	nsubj
30	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 pull	conj
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 moves	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fast	cc
33	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 far	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lever	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Your arm	a lever	with the elbow as the pivot	tree rules
2	pull	present	the muscle		close property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pull	must	muscle		hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	move	present	the hand		far property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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, 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:13.

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, R8-pos-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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