--- title: A boy in Manchester tried to lift a full box of books by bending his… — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Manchester tried to lift a full box of books by bending his back with straight legs; something pulled in his lower back and he could not play football for weeks. Who acts: boy, something. 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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 (boy, something), 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:5 # text = A boy in Manchester tried to lift a full box of books by bending his back with straight legs; something pulled in his lower back and he could not play football for weeks. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 by by SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 bending bend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ _ 22 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 26 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 32 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | a boy in Manchester | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **lift** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy in Manchester *not said here* | a full box of books | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | | 3 | **bend** | gerund | a boy in Manchester *not said here* | boy's back | | | | with straight legs | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent back=Patient with leg=Instrument | | 4 | **pull** | past | something | | | boy's lower back | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **play** | could | boy | football | | | week | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme | 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:5`. **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 ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/4/) - next →: [Lifting and carrying heavy things, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/)