--- title: A girl in Sydney carried a huge backpack on one shoulder every day f… — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Sydney carried a huge backpack on one shoulder every day for months; her shoulder and back began to ache, and the school nurse helped her pack it lighter and wear both straps. Who acts: girl, shoulder, school nurse. 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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 (girl, shoulder, school nurse), 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:6 # text = A girl in Sydney carried a huge backpack on one shoulder every day for months; her shoulder and back began to ache, and the school nurse helped her pack it lighter and wear both straps. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 backpack backpack NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 20 back back NOUN NN _ 18 conj _ _ 21 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 ache ache VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 pack pack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 36 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 37 straps strap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | past | a girl in Sydney | a huge backpack | | one shoulder | day; month | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backpack=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | past | girl's shoulder and back | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **ache** | to-infinitive | girl's shoulder and back *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **help** | past | the school nurse | girl | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **pack** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | back | | | | light *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **wear** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | both straps | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent strap=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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/5/) - next →: [Lifting and carrying heavy things, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/3-lifting-and-carrying/)