Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 9
Holding a load close to your body makes it easier to carry and safer for your back.
Who acts: Holding, body · What happens: hold, make, carry · To what, where: load, body
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 (Holding, body), 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 | Holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 makes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 load | det |
| 3 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obj |
| 4 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 load | amod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 body | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 body | nmod:poss |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 close | obl |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 makes | expl |
| 10 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 carry | mark |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 easier | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 safer | cc |
| 14 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 easier | conj |
| 15 | for | for | 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 safer | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | a load | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Holding | body | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | body not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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 ×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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