--- title: A stitch is a sharp pain in the side during exercise, its exact caus… — Exercise and posture · tree and pragmatics description: A stitch is a sharp pain in the side during exercise, its exact cause is still not known for certain, it isn't dangerous, and slowing down and breathing deeply helps. Who acts: stitch, cause, slowing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stitch, cause, slowing), 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:9 # text = A stitch is a sharp pain in the side during exercise, its exact cause is still not known for certain, it isn't dangerous, and slowing down and breathing deeply helps. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stitch stitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 during during ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 exercise exercise NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 slowing slow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 csubj _ _ 30 down down ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ _ 33 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a stitch | a sharp pain | | the side during exercise | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **know** | present · passive | | stitch's exact cause | | | still | for certain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | cause | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **slow down** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **breathe** | gerund | | | | | | deeply *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **help** | present | slowing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **cause** | | stitch | | | | | | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/8/) - next →: [Exercise and posture, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/)