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title: A warm-up makes muscles warmer and readier to work, so they are less… — Skating and sports safety · tree and pragmatics
description: A warm-up makes muscles warmer and readier to work, so they are less likely to be strained. Who acts: warm, muscles. 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 9

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A warm-up makes muscles warmer and readier to work, so they are less likely to be strained.

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**Who acts:** warm, muscles · **What happens:** make, work, be, strain · **To what, where:** muscles

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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, muscles), 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:9
# text = A warm-up makes muscles warmer and readier to work, so they are less likely to be strained.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
2	warm	warm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	readier	ready	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	strained	strain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | present | warm | muscles |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset muscle=Product |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | warm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | muscles *= muscle* |  |  |  |  | less, likely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **strain** | to-infinitive · passive | muscles *= muscle* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source» |

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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: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 ×2. **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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