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title: Lying quietly, breathing slowly or reading a calm book helps the bod… — Sleep and healthy eating · tree and pragmatics
description: Lying quietly, breathing slowly or reading a calm book helps the body relax when you cannot sleep. Who acts: Lying, body, you. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep and healthy eating» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleep and healthy eating, sentence 6

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Lying quietly, breathing slowly or reading a calm book helps the body relax when you cannot sleep.

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**Who acts:** Lying, body, you · **What happens:** lie, breathe, read, help, relax, not sleep · **To what, where:** calm book, body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and healthy eating» 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 (Lying, body, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:080-sleep-and-healthy-eating.lesson:6
# text = Lying quietly, breathing slowly or reading a calm book helps the body relax when you cannot sleep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 080-sleep-and-healthy-eating.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	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	relax	relax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **breathe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** | gerund |  | a calm book |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 4 | **help** | present | Lying | the body |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **relax** | infinitive | the body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **sleep** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:080-sleep-and-healthy-eating.lesson:6`.

**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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