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title: Falling onto one straight, stiff arm often breaks the wrist. — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: Falling onto one straight, stiff arm often breaks the wrist. Who acts: Falling. 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 clause.
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# Balance and falling well, sentence 14

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Falling onto one straight, stiff arm often breaks the wrist.

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**Who acts:** Falling · **What happens:** fall, break · **To what, where:** one straight stiff arm, wrist

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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 (Falling), 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:14
# text = Falling onto one straight, stiff arm often breaks the wrist.
# 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	Falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  | one straight stiff arm |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto arm=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **break** | present | Falling | the wrist |  |  |  | often *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=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:14`.

**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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