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title: A physiotherapist gives exercises to bend and strengthen the arm a b… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics
description: A physiotherapist gives exercises to bend and strengthen the arm a bit more each week; doing extra does not speed healing and can strain the healing arm. Who acts: physiotherapist. A sentence of the lesson «The cast: itching, signing and the saw» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with 
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# The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 14

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A physiotherapist gives exercises to bend and strengthen the arm a bit more each week; doing extra does not speed healing and can strain the healing arm.

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**Who acts:** physiotherapist · **What happens:** give, bend, strengthen, do, strain · **To what, where:** exercises, arm, extra, healing arm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The cast: itching, signing and the saw» of the medicine 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 (physiotherapist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:002-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw.lesson:14
# text = A physiotherapist gives exercises to bend and strengthen the arm a bit more each week; doing extra does not speed healing and can strain the healing arm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 002-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	physiotherapist	physiotherapist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	exercises	exercise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
18	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod
19	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:aux
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
21	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	strain	strain	VERB	VB	_	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give** | present | a physiotherapist | exercises |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exercise=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | to-infinitive | a physiotherapist *not said here* | exercises *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strengthen** | infinitive | a physiotherapist *not said here* | the arm |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | gerund |  | extra |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **strain** | can |  | the healing arm |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent arm=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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**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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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