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title: Twisting your back while holding something heavy can hurt it; turn w… — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics
description: Twisting your back while holding something heavy can hurt it; turn with your feet instead. Who acts: Twisting. A sentence of the lesson «Lifting and carrying heavy things» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 10

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Twisting your back while holding something heavy can hurt it; turn with your feet instead.

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**Who acts:** Twisting · **What happens:** twist, hold, hurt, turn · **To what, where:** back, something

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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 (Twisting), 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:10
# text = Twisting your back while holding something heavy can hurt it; turn with your feet instead.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twist** | gerund |  | your back |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 3 | **hurt** | can | Twisting | back |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 4 | **turn** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with your feet; instead *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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:003-lifting-and-carrying.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, 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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