Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 7

A "bad back" usually means pain in the lower back from strained muscles or worn joints; it is very common in adults and can come and go for years.

Who acts: bad back, back · What happens: mean, strain, be, come, go · To what, where: pain

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (bad back, back), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 back	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 back	punct
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 back	amod
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 back	punct
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 means	advmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 back	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 back	det
11	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 back	amod
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pain	nmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 muscles	case
14	strained	strain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 muscles	amod
15	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 back	nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 joints	cc
17	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 joints	amod
18	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 muscles	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 common	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 common	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 common	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 common	advmod
23	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 means	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 adults	case
25	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 common	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 common	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 go	cc
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 come	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 years	case
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 go	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a bad back	pain		in the lower back from strained muscles or worn joints; usually property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot pain=Theme in back=Attribute
2	strain	participle					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	back			in adults; common property	tree rules
4	come	can	back not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	infinitive	back not said here		year		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:7.

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): 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.

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