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title: You stay balanced when the point where your weight is centred (your… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: You stay balanced when the point where your weight is centred (your centre of gravity) is above the area between your feet. Who acts: You, point. A sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Balance and falling well, sentence 0

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You stay balanced when the point where your weight is centred (your centre of gravity) is above the area between your feet.

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**Who acts:** You, point · **What happens:** stay, centre, be · **To what, where:** weight, area

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» 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, point), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:0
# text = You stay balanced when the point where your weight is centred (your centre of gravity) is above the area between your feet.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 002-balance-and-falling-well.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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	balanced	balance	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	centred	centre	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	above	above	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **stay** | present | You |  |  |  |  | balance *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **centre** | present · passive |  | your weight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the point |  |  | the area |  | between your feet | tree rules |

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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:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:0`.

**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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