--- title: If your back starts to hurt while you lift or carry, stop at once an… — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics description: If your back starts to hurt while you lift or carry, stop at once and tell an adult; pain is a warning, not a sign of getting stronger. Who acts: back, you, pain, sign. 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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, you, pain, sign), 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:18 # text = If your back starts to hurt while you lift or carry, stop at once and tell an adult; pain is a warning, not a sign of getting stronger. # 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 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lift lift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 13 advmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 of of SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 30 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 31 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **start** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your back | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **hurt** | to-infinitive | your back *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **lift** | present | you | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **carry** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | once *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 7 | **is a** | present | pain | a warning and a sign | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **get** | gerund | a sign *not said here* | | | | | strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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:18`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Lifting and carrying heavy things, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/17/) - next →: [Lifting and carrying heavy things, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/)