Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 8
To lift something heavy, bend your knees and keep your back straight.
Who acts: you · What happens: lift, bend, keep · To what, where: something, knees, 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 (you), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 lift | mark |
| 2 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 bend | advcl |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 lift | obj |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 something | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bend | punct |
| 6 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knees | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bend | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keep | cc |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 bend | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 keep | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bend | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | to-infinitive | you not said here | something | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bend | imperative | you not said here | your knees | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | your back | straight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=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:8.
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, R6-punct-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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