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title: To lift something heavy, bend your knees and keep your back straight. — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics
description: To lift something heavy, bend your knees and keep your back straight. 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 8

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To lift something heavy, bend your knees and keep your back straight.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** lift, bend, keep · **To what, where:** something, knees, back

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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:8
# text = To lift something heavy, bend your knees and keep your back straight.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lift	lift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | imperative | you *not said here* | your knees |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your back |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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, R6-punct-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/).

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