Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 0
Your back is strong, but bending over with straight legs to lift something heavy puts a big strain on it; your leg muscles are much stronger and are made for the job.
Who acts: back, bending, leg muscles · What happens: be, bend over, lift, put, make · To what, where: straight legs, something, big strain, back
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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 (back, bending, leg muscles), 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 back | nmod:poss |
| 2 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | cop |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 puts | cc |
| 7 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 puts | csubj |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 bending | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 lift | mark |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 legs | amod |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bending | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lift | mark |
| 13 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bending | advcl |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 lift | obj |
| 15 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 something | amod |
| 16 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 strain | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 strain | amod |
| 19 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 puts | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 puts | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 stronger | punct |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 muscles | nmod:poss |
| 24 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 muscles | compound |
| 25 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 stronger | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 stronger | cop |
| 27 | much | much | ADV | _ | 28 stronger | advmod |
| 28 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 strong | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux:pass |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 stronger | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 job | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 job | det |
| 34 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your back | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bend over | gerund | straight legs | over property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lift | to-infinitive | something | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put | present | bending | a big strain | back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent strain=Theme on it=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | present | your leg muscles | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | present · passive | your leg muscles not said here | for the job | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for job=Asset |
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:003-lifting-and-carrying.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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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