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title: There is no single perfect posture; changing position often and gett… — Exercise and posture · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no single perfect posture; changing position often and getting up to move about every half hour is good for the body. Who acts: single perfect posture, changing. A sentence of the lesson «Exercise and posture» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Exercise and posture, sentence 8

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There is no single perfect posture; changing position often and getting up to move about every half hour is good for the body.

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**Who acts:** single perfect posture, changing · **What happens:** be, change, get up, move about · **To what, where:** position

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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 (single perfect posture, changing), 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:8
# text = There is no single perfect posture; changing position often and getting up to move about every half hour is good for the body.
# 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	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	posture	posture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	csubj	_	_
9	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	compound	_	_
19	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | present | no single perfect posture |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | gerund |  | position |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient |
| 3 | **get up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **move about** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | hour |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | changing |  |  |  |  | for the body; 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: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): 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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