--- title: The farther a heavy thing is from your body, the harder it pulls on… — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics description: The farther a heavy thing is from your body, the harder it pulls on your back, just as a full bucket is easier to hold against your tummy than at arm's length. Who acts: heavy thing, thing, full bucket. 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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 (heavy thing, thing, full bucket), 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:3 # text = The farther a heavy thing is from your body, the harder it pulls on your back, just as a full bucket is easier to hold against your tummy than at arm's length. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 harder hard ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 advcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 against against ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 heavy thing | | | your body | | far *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pull** | present | thing | | | | | on your back; hard *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on back=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a full bucket | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hold** | to-infinitive | a full bucket *not said here* | | | your tummy | | than arm's length | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against tummy=Location | 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:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Lifting and carrying heavy things, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/2/) - next →: [Lifting and carrying heavy things, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/)