--- title: A "bad back" usually means pain in the lower back from strained musc… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics description: A "bad back" usually means pain in the lower back from strained muscles or worn joints; it is very common in adults and can come and go for years. Who acts: bad back, back. A sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/) / 7 # Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 7 A "bad back" usually means pain in the lower back from strained muscles or worn joints; it is very common in adults and can come and go for years. **Who acts:** bad back, back · **What happens:** mean, strain, be, come, go · **To what, where:** pain This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» of the adult life 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 (bad back, back), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:7 # text = A "bad back" usually means pain in the lower back from strained muscles or worn joints; it is very common in adults and can come and go for years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 usually usually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 strained strain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 worn worn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 joints joint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a bad back | pain | | | | in the lower back from strained muscles or worn joints; usually *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot pain=Theme in back=Attribute | | 2 | **strain** | participle | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | back | | | | | in adults; common *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | can | back *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | back *not said here* | | | | year | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:7`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/6/) - next →: [Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/)