--- title: A backpack that is too heavy makes you lean forward and can make you… — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics description: A backpack that is too heavy makes you lean forward and can make your back and shoulders hurt. Who acts: backpack, you, back. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Lifting and carrying heavy things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/) / 15 # Lifting and carrying heavy things, sentence 15 A backpack that is too heavy makes you lean forward and can make your back and shoulders hurt. **Who acts:** backpack, you, back · **What happens:** be, make, lean, hurt · **To what, where:** you 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 (backpack, you, back), 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:15 # text = A backpack that is too heavy makes you lean forward and can make your back and shoulders hurt. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 backpack backpack NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 lean lean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 forward forward ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **is** | present | a backpack | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | a backpack | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lean** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | can | a backpack *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hurt** | infinitive | your back and shoulders | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:15`. **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): 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: [Lifting and carrying heavy things, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/14/) - next →: [Lifting and carrying heavy things, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/)