--- title: Sitting still for a long time makes muscles stiff, so you should get… — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Sitting still for a long time makes muscles stiff, so you should get up and move often. Who acts: Sitting, you. A sentence of the lesson «Posture, screens and resting your eyes» 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/8-posture-and-screens/14/) [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/) / [Posture, screens and resting your eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/) / 14 # Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 14 Sitting still for a long time makes muscles stiff, so you should get up and move often. **Who acts:** Sitting, you · **What happens:** sit, make, get up, move · **To what, where:** muscles This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture, screens and resting your eyes» 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 (Sitting, you), 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:14 # text = Sitting still for a long time makes muscles stiff, so you should get up and move often. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 still still ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | gerund | | | | | still; time | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | Sitting | muscles | | | | stiff *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset muscle=Product | | 3 | **get up** | should | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **move** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Posture, screens and resting your eyes, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/13/) - next →: [Posture, screens and resting your eyes, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/)