Balance and falling well, sentence 4

Catching yourself on one straight, stiff arm puts all the force into a small wrist, which is why broken wrists are so common; judo students practise falling for this reason.

Who acts: Catching, small wrist, judo students · What happens: catch, put, break, be, practise, fall · To what, where: yourself, force, small wrist

This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» of the everyday 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 (Catching, small wrist, judo students), 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	Catching	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 puts	csubj
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Catching	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 straight	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 arm	nummod
5	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 arm	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 arm	punct
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 arm	amod
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Catching	obl
9	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 force	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 force	det
12	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 puts	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 wrist	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wrist	det
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wrist	amod
16	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 puts	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 common	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 common	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 common	cop
20	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 common	advmod
21	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 wrists	amod
22	wrists	wrist	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 common	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 common	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 common	advmod
25	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wrist	acl:relcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 practise	punct
27	judo	judo	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 students	compound
28	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 practise	nsubj
29	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 puts	parataxis
30	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 practise	xcomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 reason	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 reason	det
33	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 falling	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 puts	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	gerund		yourself		one straight stiff arm obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
2	put	present	Catching	all force	a small wrist		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent force=Goal
3	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is	present	a small wrist			common property	tree rules
5	practise	present	judo students				tree rules
6	fall	gerund	judo students not said here			for this reason	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for reason=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:everyday:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:4.

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 ×3, 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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