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title: If you do fall, the trick is to spread the bump over a big soft part… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: If you do fall, the trick is to spread the bump over a big soft part of your body and over a little more time: tuck your chin, bend your knees and elbows, and roll onto your side or bottom. Who acts: you, trick. A sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» of the everyday course of Mova's pri
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# Balance and falling well, sentence 3

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If you do fall, the trick is to spread the bump over a big soft part of your body and over a little more time: tuck your chin, bend your knees and elbows, and roll onto your side or bottom.

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**Who acts:** you, trick · **What happens:** fall, be, tuck, bend, roll · **To what, where:** big soft part, chin, knees, side

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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, trick), 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:3
# text = If you do fall, the trick is to spread the bump over a big soft part of your body and over a little more time: tuck your chin, bend your knees and elbows, and roll onto your side or bottom.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bump	bump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=32:conj
40	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the trick |  |  | a big soft part of your body and a more time |  | spread *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tuck** | infinitive |  | your chin |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chin=Theme |
| 4 | **bend** | infinitive |  | your knees and elbows |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material |
| 5 | **roll** | infinitive |  |  |  | your side or bottom |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto side=Trajectory |

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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:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

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