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title: Bending your head far forward over a phone strains the muscles of yo… — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: Bending your head far forward over a phone strains the muscles of your neck. Who acts: Bending. 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.
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# Posture, screens and resting your eyes, sentence 8

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Bending your head far forward over a phone strains the muscles of your neck.

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**Who acts:** Bending · **What happens:** bend, strain · **To what, where:** head, phone, muscles

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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 (Bending), 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:8
# text = Bending your head far forward over a phone strains the muscles of your neck.
# 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): no change
1	Bending	bend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	strains	strain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **bend** | gerund |  | your head |  | a phone |  | forward *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme over phone=Location |
| 2 | **strain** | present | Bending | the muscles of your neck |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent muscle=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:008-posture-and-screens.lesson:8`.

**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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