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title: Spreading your feet and bending your knees makes that area wider and… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: Spreading your feet and bending your knees makes that area wider and your centre lower, so you are much harder to knock over. Who acts: Spreading, you. 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 e
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# Balance and falling well, sentence 1

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Spreading your feet and bending your knees makes that area wider and your centre lower, so you are much harder to knock over.

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**Who acts:** Spreading, you · **What happens:** spread, bend, make, be, knock over · **To what, where:** feet, knees, 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 (Spreading, you), 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:1
# text = Spreading your feet and bending your knees makes that area wider and your centre lower, so you are much harder to knock over.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | gerund |  | your feet |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | gerund |  | your knees |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material |
| 3 | **make** | present | Spreading | that area |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset area=Product |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **knock over** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:1`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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