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title: Putting a straight, stiff arm out to stop a fall is one of the most… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting a straight, stiff arm out to stop a fall is one of the most common ways children break a wrist. Who acts: Putting, children. 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 21

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Putting a straight, stiff arm out to stop a fall is one of the most common ways children break a wrist.

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**Who acts:** Putting, children · **What happens:** put, stop, be, break · **To what, where:** straight stiff arm, fall, one, 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 (Putting, children), 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:21
# text = Putting a straight, stiff arm out to stop a fall is one of the most common ways children break a 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
6	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **put** | gerund |  | a straight stiff arm |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | a fall |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fall=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Putting | one |  |  |  | of the common ways | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | present | children | a wrist |  |  |  |  | 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: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): R5-strong ×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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