--- title: Bodies like change more than perfection: slouching for a while does… — Exercise and posture · tree and pragmatics description: Bodies like change more than perfection: slouching for a while does no harm, but sitting in any one position for hours does, so get up, stretch and move often. Who acts: slouching. A sentence of the lesson «Exercise and posture» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/3/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Exercise and posture](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/) / 3 # Exercise and posture, sentence 3 Bodies like change more than perfection: slouching for a while does no harm, but sitting in any one position for hours does, so get up, stretch and move often. **Who acts:** slouching · **What happens:** slouch, do, sit, get up, stretch, move · **To what, where:** harm, one position 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 (slouching), 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:3 # text = Bodies like change more than perfection: slouching for a while does no harm, but sitting in any one position for hours does, so get up, stretch and move often. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 perfection perfection NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 slouching slouch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:aux 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 stretch stretch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 33 often often ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slouch** | gerund | | | | | while | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | present | slouching | no harm | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | | | | any one position for hours | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in position=Location | | 4 | **get up** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **stretch** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **move** | infinitive | | | | | | 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:medicine:034-exercise-and-posture.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Exercise and posture, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/2/) - next →: [Exercise and posture, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/)