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title: You stay up when your centre of gravity is above your feet; on a slo… — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics
description: You stay up when your centre of gravity is above your feet; on a slope you lean forward going up and keep your knees bent and your steps small going down, so your weight stays over your feet even though the ground is tilted. Who acts: You, centre, weight, your. A sentence of the lesson «Reasoning ab
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# Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 1

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You stay up when your centre of gravity is above your feet; on a slope you lean forward going up and keep your knees bent and your steps small going down, so your weight stays over your feet even though the ground is tilted.

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**Who acts:** You, centre, weight, your · **What happens:** stay up, be, lean, go up, keep, go down · **To what, where:** feet, slope, knees, ground

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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, centre, weight, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:1
# text = You stay up when your centre of gravity is above your feet; on a slope you lean forward going up and keep your knees bent and your steps small going down, so your weight stays over your feet even though the ground is tilted.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	advcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lean	lean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
19	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
23	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
31	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
32	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	even	even	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
42	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	tilted	tilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay up** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | your centre of gravity |  |  | your feet |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lean** | present | you |  |  | a slope |  | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on slope=Location |
| 4 | **go up** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your knees |  |  |  | bent *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Theme |
| 6 | **go down** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **stay** | present | your weight |  |  | your feet |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over foot=Location |
| 8 | **tilt** | present · passive |  | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 9 | **step** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: poss=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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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