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title: Posture is the way you hold your body; slumping squashes the chest a… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics
description: Posture is the way you hold your body; slumping squashes the chest and belly, so there is less air and less control of the breath. Who acts: Posture, you, less air. A sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 8

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Posture is the way you hold your body; slumping squashes the chest and belly, so there is less air and less control of the breath.

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**Who acts:** Posture, you, less air · **What happens:** be, hold, slump, squash · **To what, where:** way, body, chest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts 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 (Posture, you, less air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.lesson:8
# text = Posture is the way you hold your body; slumping squashes the chest and belly, so there is less air and less control of the breath.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.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	Posture	posture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	slumping	slump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	nsubj	_	_
11	squashes	squash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Posture | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | you | your body |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 3 | **slump** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **squash** | present |  | the chest and belly |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Patient |
| 5 | **does** | present | less air and less control of the breath |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:arts:001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.lesson:8`.

**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/).

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