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title: Turn by moving your feet, not by twisting your back, and put the loa… — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics
description: Turn by moving your feet, not by twisting your back, and put the load down the same way, bending your knees. Who acts: you. 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 2

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Turn by moving your feet, not by twisting your back, and put the load down the same way, bending your knees.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** turn, move, not twist, put, bend · **To what, where:** feet, back, load, knees

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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 (you), 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:2
# text = Turn by moving your feet, not by twisting your back, and put the load down the same way, bending your knees.
# 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): no change
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | you *not said here* | your feet |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **twist** | gerund | you *not said here* | your back |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the load |  |  |  | down the same way | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent load=Goal |
| 5 | **bend** | gerund | you *not said here* | your knees |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material |

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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:2`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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