Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 5
An adult head weighs about 5 kg; a study reported that bending it far forward over a phone loads the neck like about 27 kg; holding the phone up nearer eye level keeps the head upright.
Who acts: adult head, study, bending, holding · What happens: weigh, report, bend, load, hold up, keep · To what, where: 5 kg, study, phone, neck, head
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 (adult head, study, bending, holding), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 2 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 head | compound |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weighs | nsubj |
| 4 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 5 | advmod |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 kg | nummod |
| 7 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weighs | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 reported | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 study | det |
| 10 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reported | nsubj |
| 11 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 weighs | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 loads | mark |
| 13 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 loads | csubj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bending | obj |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 forward | advmod |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 bending | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 phone | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 phone | det |
| 19 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bending | obl |
| 20 | loads | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 reported | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 neck | det |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 loads | obj |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 kg | case |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 27 | advmod |
| 25 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 kg | nummod |
| 26 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 loads | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 keeps | punct |
| 28 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 keeps | csubj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 phone | det |
| 30 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 holding | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 holding | compound:prt |
| 32 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 level | amod |
| 33 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 level | compound |
| 34 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 holding | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weighs | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 head | det |
| 37 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 keeps | obj |
| 38 | upright | upright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 keeps | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weighs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | present | a adult head | 5 kg | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value | ||||
| 2 | report | past | a study | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bend | gerund | study | a phone | forward property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme over phone=Location | |||
| 4 | load | present | bending | the neck | like 27 kg | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | |||
| 5 | hold up | gerund | the phone | nearer eye level obl:unmarked | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot phone=Theme | ||||
| 6 | keep | present | holding | the head | upright property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:5.
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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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