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title: Holding a load close to your body makes it easier to carry and safer… — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics
description: Holding a load close to your body makes it easier to carry and safer for your back. Who acts: Holding, body. 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 9

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Holding a load close to your body makes it easier to carry and safer for your back.

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**Who acts:** Holding, body · **What happens:** hold, make, carry · **To what, where:** load, body

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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 (Holding, body), 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:9
# text = Holding a load close to your body makes it easier to carry and safer for your back.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
10	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	_
15	for	for	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	.	_	8	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 | **hold** | gerund |  | a load |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | Holding | body |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:9`.

**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, 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/).

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