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title: A cramp must be stretched slowly and gently; jerking it hard can pul… — Warming up, stitches and cramp · tree and pragmatics
description: A cramp must be stretched slowly and gently; jerking it hard can pull the muscle. Who acts: jerking. A sentence of the lesson «Warming up, stitches and cramp» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Warming up, stitches and cramp, sentence 18

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A cramp must be stretched slowly and gently; jerking it hard can pull the muscle.

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**Who acts:** jerking · **What happens:** stretch, jerk, pull · **To what, where:** cramp, muscle

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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 (jerking), 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:18
# text = A cramp must be stretched slowly and gently; jerking it hard can pull the muscle.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	jerking	jerk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **stretch** | must · passive |  | a cramp |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **jerk** | gerund |  | Cramp |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **pull** | can | jerking | the muscle |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme |

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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:18`.

**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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