Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 14

Slouching does not give children a hunchback (a back bent into a hump); moving about and strong muscles matter more, though sitting badly for hours can cause aches.

Who acts: moving, sitting · What happens: slouch, not give, bend, move about, matter, sit · To what, where: hunchback, children, back, hump, aches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» of the myths 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 (moving, sitting), 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	Slouching	slouch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 give	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hunchback	det
7	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 back	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 back	det
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunchback	appos
11	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 back	acl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 hump	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hump	det
14	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bent	obl
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 bent	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 matter	punct
17	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 matter	csubj
18	about	about	ADV	_	17 moving	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 muscles	cc
20	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 muscles	amod
21	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 moving	conj
22	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 matter	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cause	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 cause	mark
26	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 cause	csubj
27	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 sitting	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 hours	case
29	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sitting	obl
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 cause	aux
31	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 matter	advcl
32	aches	ache	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cause	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slouch	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not give	present · do-support		a hunchback	children				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient hunchback=Theme
3	bend	participle		a back not said here		a hump			vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into hump=Product
4	move about	gerund						about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	matter	present	moving						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6	sit	gerund					hour	badly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cause	can	sitting	aches					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ache=Patient

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:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:14.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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