--- title: Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their… — Dances of the world and dancing at parties · tree and pragmatics description: Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again. Who acts: Dancers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dancers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:11 # text = Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Dancers dancer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 xcomp _ _ 4 dizzy dizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 6 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 spotting spot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 10 fixing fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 parataxis _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 whipping whip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 round round ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **avoid** | present | Dancers | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **get** | gerund | Dancers *not said here* | | | | | dizzy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **spin** | gerund | Dancers *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **spot** | gerund | Dancers *not said here* | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 5 | **fix** | gerund | | dancers's eyes | | one point | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 6 | **whip** | gerund | | the head | | | | round *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | | 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | | head | | | again | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-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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