Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 10
Twisting your back while holding something heavy can hurt it; turn with your feet instead.
Who acts: Twisting · What happens: twist, hold, hurt, turn · To what, where: back, something
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 (Twisting), 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 | Twisting | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hurt | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 back | nmod:poss |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twisting | obj |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 holding | mark |
| 5 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Twisting | advcl |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 holding | obj |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 something | amod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurt | aux |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hurt | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 turn | punct |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hurt | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turn | obl |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 12 turn | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | gerund | your back | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | something | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hurt | can | Twisting | back | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | turn | infinitive | with your feet; instead 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:everyday:003-lifting-and-carrying.lesson:10.
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 ×2, 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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