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title: A warm-up is a few minutes of gentle movement before harder exercise. — Skating and sports safety · tree and pragmatics
description: A warm-up is a few minutes of gentle movement before harder exercise. Who acts: warm up. A sentence of the lesson «Skating and sports safety» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Skating and sports safety, sentence 10

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A warm-up is a few minutes of gentle movement before harder exercise.

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**Who acts:** warm up · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** few minutes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Skating and sports safety» 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 (warm up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:006-skating-and-sports-safety.lesson:10
# text = A warm-up is a few minutes of gentle movement before harder exercise.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 006-skating-and-sports-safety.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | a warm up | a few minutes |  |  |  | of gentle movement before harder exercise | tree rules |

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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:006-skating-and-sports-safety.lesson:10`.

**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/).

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