Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 3

The farther a heavy thing is from your body, the harder it pulls on your back, just as a full bucket is easier to hold against your tummy than at arm's length.

Who acts: heavy thing, thing, full bucket · What happens: be, pull, hold · To what, where: body, tummy

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 (heavy thing, thing, full bucket), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farther	det
2	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 body	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 body	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 body	cop
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 body	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 body	nmod:poss
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulls	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 farther	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 harder	det
12	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 pulls	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pulls	nsubj
14	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulls	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 easier	punct
19	just	just	ADV	_	25 easier	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 easier	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bucket	det
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bucket	amod
23	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 easier	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 easier	cop
25	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 pulls	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 hold	mark
27	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 easier	xcomp
28	against	against	ADP	_	30 tummy	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tummy	nmod:poss
30	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hold	obl
31	than	than	ADP	_	35 length	case
32	at	at	ADP	_	35 length	case
33	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 length	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 arm	case
35	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hold	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pulls	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a heavy thing	your body	far property	tree rules
2	pull	present	thing		on your back; hard property	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on back=Theme
3	is	present	a full bucket		easy property	tree rules
4	hold	to-infinitive	a full bucket not said here	your tummy	than arm's length	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against tummy=Location

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:3.

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): no change. 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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