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title: Cramp is a muscle suddenly tightening and not relaxing; tired, overw… — Warming up, stitches and cramp · tree and pragmatics
description: Cramp is a muscle suddenly tightening and not relaxing; tired, overworked muscles cramp more easily, and it is usually not a tear; it usually passes in minutes, though the muscle can ache afterwards. Who acts: Cramp, muscle, tired overworked muscles. A sentence of the lesson «Warming up, stitches an
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# Warming up, stitches and cramp, sentence 14

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Cramp is a muscle suddenly tightening and not relaxing; tired, overworked muscles cramp more easily, and it is usually not a tear; it usually passes in minutes, though the muscle can ache afterwards.

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**Who acts:** Cramp, muscle, tired overworked muscles · **What happens:** be, tighten, not relaxing, cramp, not be, pass · **To what, where:** muscle, tear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Warming up, stitches and cramp» 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 (Cramp, muscle, tired overworked muscles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:037-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp.lesson:14
# text = Cramp is a muscle suddenly tightening and not relaxing; tired, overworked muscles cramp more easily, and it is usually not a tear; it usually passes in minutes, though the muscle can ache afterwards.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 037-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp.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 ×1
1	Cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tightening	tighten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	relaxing	relaxing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	overworked	overwork	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
14	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cramp	cramp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	ache	ache	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
38	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Cramp | a muscle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tighten** | gerund | a muscle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **relaxing** | gerund | a muscle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cramp** | present | tired overworked muscles |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | Cramp | a tear |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pass** | present | Cramp |  |  |  | minute | usually *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **ache** | can | the muscle |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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 ×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.

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