Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 18
If your back starts to hurt while you lift or carry, stop at once and tell an adult; pain is a warning, not a sign of getting stronger.
Who acts: back, you, pain, sign · What happens: start, hurt, lift, carry, stop, tell · To what, where: adult, warning · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you, pain, sign), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 starts | mark |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 back | nmod:poss |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starts | nsubj |
| 4 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hurt | mark |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 starts | xcomp |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 lift | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 lift | nsubj |
| 9 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | advcl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 carry | cc |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lift | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 stop | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stop | conj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 adult | det |
| 19 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 warning | punct |
| 21 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 warning | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 warning | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 warning | det |
| 24 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 starts | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sign | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 sign | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sign | det |
| 28 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 warning | conj |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 getting | mark |
| 30 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 sign | acl |
| 31 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 getting | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start a condition, not said to happen | present | your back | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hurt | to-infinitive | your back not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | lift | present | you | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | carry | present | you not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stop | imperative | you not said here | once property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | pain | a warning and a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | get | gerund | a sign not said here | strong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:18.
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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