--- title: Lifting something too heavy can strain muscles, especially in the ba… — Showing off · tree and pragmatics description: Lifting something too heavy can strain muscles, especially in the back. Who acts: Lifting. A sentence of the lesson «Showing off» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Showing off](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/) / 27 # Showing off, sentence 27 Lifting something too heavy can strain muscles, especially in the back. **Who acts:** Lifting · **What happens:** lift, strain · **To what, where:** something, muscles, back This is a sentence of the lesson «Showing off» 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 (Lifting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:390-showing-off.lesson:27 # text = Lifting something too heavy can strain muscles, especially in the back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 390-showing-off.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 Lifting lift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 strain strain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 especially especially ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 2 | **strain** | can | Lifting | muscles | | the back | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent muscle=Source | 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:390-showing-off.lesson:27`. **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: [Showing off, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/26/) - next →: [Showing off, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/390-showing-off/)