--- title: Your back is strong, but bending over with straight legs to lift som… — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics description: Your back is strong, but bending over with straight legs to lift something heavy puts a big strain on it; your leg muscles are much stronger and are made for the job. Who acts: back, bending, leg muscles. 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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 (back, bending, leg muscles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:003-lifting-and-carrying.lesson:0 # text = Your back is strong, but bending over with straight legs to lift something heavy puts a big strain on it; your leg muscles are much stronger and are made for the job. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 003-lifting-and-carrying.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 7 bending bend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj 8 over over ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 with with SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 16 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 strain strain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 much much ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Your back | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bend over** | gerund | | straight legs | | | | over *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lift** | to-infinitive | | something | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 4 | **put** | present | bending | a big strain | | back | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent strain=Theme on it=Destination | | 5 | **is** | present | your leg muscles | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present · passive | your leg muscles *not said here* | | | | | for the job | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for job=Asset | 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:003-lifting-and-carrying.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Balance and falling well, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/22/) - next →: [Lifting and carrying heavy things, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/)