Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 4
Sitting still for hours stiffens the back and neck; getting up and moving often helps more than any special chair.
Who acts: Sitting, getting · What happens: sitting, stiffen, get up, move, help · To what, where: back, more
This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» of the medicine 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 (Sitting, getting), 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 | Sitting | Sitting | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stiffens | csubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 1 Sitting | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 hours | case |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sitting | obl |
| 5 | stiffens | stiffen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 back | det |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stiffens | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 neck | cc |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 back | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 helps | punct |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 helps | csubj |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 getting | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 moving | cc |
| 14 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 getting | conj |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 moving | advmod |
| 16 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stiffens | parataxis |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 helps | obj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 chair | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 chair | det |
| 20 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chair | amod |
| 21 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 more | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stiffens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sitting | gerund | still; hour | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stiffen | present | Sitting | the back and neck | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent back=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get up | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | move | gerund | often property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | help | present | getting | more | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary |
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:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:4.
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): 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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