Balance: the centre of gravity, sentence 10

When you lean forward, your hips go back to keep your balance, so with your back against a wall you cannot touch your toes.

Who acts: you, hips, your · What happens: lean, go back, keep, not touch, balance · To what, where: balance, toes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance: the centre of gravity» of the physics 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, hips, your), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 lean	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lean	nsubj
3	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 go	advcl
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 lean	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lean	punct
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hips	nmod:poss
7	hips	hip	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	advcl
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 balance	nmod:poss
13	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keep	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 touch	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	25 touch	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod:poss
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 touch	obl
19	against	against	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 back	nmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 touch	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 touch	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 touch	advmod
25	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 keep	conj
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 toes	nmod:poss
27	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 touch	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lean	present	you		forward property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go back	present	your hips			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	keep	to-infinitive	your hips not said here	your balance		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Theme
4	not touch	can	you	your toes	with your back against a wall	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent toe=Experiencer with back=Instrument
5	balance		your			nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=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:physics:008-balance-the-centre-of-gravity.lesson:10.

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, R8-pos-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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