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title: The talk test: if you can talk but not sing you are working moderate… — Heart and lungs when you run · tree and pragmatics
description: The talk test: if you can talk but not sing you are working moderately; if you can only gasp a few words you are working hard; both count as exercise. Who acts: you, both. A sentence of the lesson «Heart and lungs when you run» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Heart and lungs when you run, sentence 14

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The talk test: if you can talk but not sing you are working moderately; if you can only gasp a few words you are working hard; both count as exercise.

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**Who acts:** you, both · **What happens:** talk, not sing, work, gasp, count · **To what, where:** few words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Heart and lungs when you run» 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 (you, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:036-heart-and-lungs-when-you-run.lesson:14
# text = The talk test: if you can talk but not sing you are working moderately; if you can only gasp a few words you are working hard; both count as exercise.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 036-heart-and-lungs-when-you-run.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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
15	moderately	moderately	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	gasp	gasp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
31	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | moderately *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gasp** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | a few words |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 5 | **work** | present · progressive | you | a few words *not said here* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent word=Material |
| 6 | **count** | present | both |  |  |  |  | as exercise | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as exercise=Attribute |

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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:036-heart-and-lungs-when-you-run.lesson:14`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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