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title: Night cramp in the calf is common and usually harmless; pulling the… — Warming up, stitches and cramp · tree and pragmatics
description: Night cramp in the calf is common and usually harmless; pulling the toes up towards you stretches it; if it happens very often, see a GP. Who acts: Night cramp, pulling, it. A sentence of the lesson «Warming up, stitches and cramp» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Warming up, stitches and cramp, sentence 16

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Night cramp in the calf is common and usually harmless; pulling the toes up towards you stretches it; if it happens very often, see a GP.

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**Who acts:** Night cramp, pulling, it · **What happens:** be, pull up, stretch, happen, see · **To what, where:** toes, Cramp, GP

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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 (Night cramp, pulling, it), 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:16
# text = Night cramp in the calf is common and usually harmless; pulling the toes up towards you stretches it; if it happens very often, see a GP.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
12	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
16	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
18	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	GP	gp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | present | Night cramp in the calf |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Night cramp in the calf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pull up** | gerund |  | the toes |  |  |  | towards you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent toe=Theme towards you=Destination |
| 4 | **stretch** | present | pulling | Cramp |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | it |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive |  | a GP |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gp=Stimulus |

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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:037-warming-up-stitches-and-cramp.lesson:16`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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