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title: Walking or cycling to school adds activity and is better for the air… — Exercise and posture · tree and pragmatics
description: Walking or cycling to school adds activity and is better for the air than a short car trip. Who acts: Walking. A sentence of the lesson «Exercise and posture» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Exercise and posture, sentence 15

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Walking or cycling to school adds activity and is better for the air than a short car trip.

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**Who acts:** Walking · **What happens:** cycle, add, be · **To what, where:** school, activity

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Exercise and posture» 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 (Walking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:034-exercise-and-posture.lesson:15
# text = Walking or cycling to school adds activity and is better for the air than a short car trip.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 034-exercise-and-posture.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 ×1
1	Walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cycling	cycle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **cycle** | gerund | Walking *not said here* |  |  | school |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V PP.location»: agent=Theme to school=Trajectory |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Walking | activity |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | Walking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the air; than a short car trip; good *property* | tree rules |

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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:medicine:034-exercise-and-posture.lesson:15`.

**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 ×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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