--- title: Catching yourself on one straight, stiff arm puts all the force into… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics description: Catching yourself on one straight, stiff arm puts all the force into a small wrist, which is why broken wrists are so common; judo students practise falling for this reason. Who acts: Catching, small wrist, judo students. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catching, small wrist, judo students), 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:4 # text = Catching yourself on one straight, stiff arm puts all the force into a small wrist, which is why broken wrists are so common; judo students practise falling for this reason. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Catching catch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nummod 5 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 9 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 12 det:predet _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 wrist wrist NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 20 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 21 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 wrists wrist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 acl:relcl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 judo judo NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 students student NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 practise practise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 30 falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | gerund | | yourself | | | | one straight stiff arm *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | | 2 | **put** | present | Catching | all force | | a small wrist | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent force=Goal | | 3 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | a small wrist | | | | | common *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **practise** | present | judo students | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fall** | gerund | judo students *not said here* | | | | | for this reason | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for reason=Theme | 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. **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:4`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Balance and falling well, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/3/) - next →: [Balance and falling well, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/)