--- title: Your head is heavy, about as heavy as a big bag of flour, and when y… — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Your head is heavy, about as heavy as a big bag of flour, and when you bend it far forward over a phone, your neck muscles have to hold it up like a long fishing rod, so they get sore. Who acts: head, you, neck muscles, muscles. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, you, neck muscles, muscles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:008-posture-and-screens.lesson:0 # text = Your head is heavy, about as heavy as a big bag of flour, and when you bend it far forward over a phone, your neck muscles have to hold it up like a long fishing rod, so they get sore. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 008-posture-and-screens.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 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 bend bend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 22 forward forward ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 44 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Your head | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Your head *not said here* | | | | | as a big bag of flour; about *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bend** | present | you | head | | a phone | | forward *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme over phone=Location | | 4 | **have** | present | your neck muscles | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hold up** | to-infinitive | your neck muscles *not said here* | head | | | | like a long fishing rod | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 6 | **get** | present | muscles *= muscle* | | | | | sore *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:008-posture-and-screens.lesson:0`. **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. **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: [Swimming basics and water confidence, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/7-swimming-and-water/21/) - next →: [Posture, screens and resting your eyes, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/)