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title: A cramp is a muscle squeezing hard and not letting go; it is common… — Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, kne… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cramp is a muscle squeezing hard and not letting go; it is common after exercise, and gently stretching the muscle usually helps. Who acts: cramp, muscle. A sentence of the lesson «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles, sentence 15

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A cramp is a muscle squeezing hard and not letting go; it is common after exercise, and gently stretching the muscle usually helps.

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**Who acts:** cramp, muscle · **What happens:** be, squeeze, not let, go, stretch, help · **To what, where:** muscle

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» of the biology 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 (cramp, muscle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:360-muscles-and-joints-by-name-biceps-triceps-knees-elbows-and-the-busiest-muscles.lesson:15
# text = A cramp is a muscle squeezing hard and not letting go; it is common after exercise, and gently stretching the muscle usually helps.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 360-muscles-and-joints-by-name-biceps-triceps-knees-elbows-and-the-busiest-muscles.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): R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj
24	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | a cramp | a muscle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **squeeze** | gerund | a muscle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **let** | gerund | a muscle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | a muscle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | cramp |  |  |  | after exercise | common *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **stretch** | gerund | cramp *not said here* | the muscle |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient |
| 7 | **help** | present | cramp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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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