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title: Landing from a big height on straight legs can break ankles, legs or… — Reasoning about the body moving in the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Landing from a big height on straight legs can break ankles, legs or the spine. Who acts: Landing. A sentence of the lesson «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reasoning about the body moving in the world, sentence 21

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Landing from a big height on straight legs can break ankles, legs or the spine.

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**Who acts:** Landing · **What happens:** land, break · **To what, where:** big height, ankles

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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 (Landing), 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:21
# text = Landing from a big height on straight legs can break ankles, legs or the spine.
# 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): no change
1	Landing	land	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	ankles	ankle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spine	spine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **land** | gerund |  |  |  | a big height |  | on straight legs | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on leg=Destination |
| 2 | **break** | can | Landing | ankles and legs or the spine |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ankle=Patient |

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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:everyday:010-reasoning-about-the-moving-body.lesson:21`.

**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): no change. **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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