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title: Holding long stretches just before a sprint can make you slightly sl… — Warming up, stitches and cramp · tree and pragmatics
description: Holding long stretches just before a sprint can make you slightly slower. Who acts: Holding. 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 9

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Holding long stretches just before a sprint can make you slightly slower.

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**Who acts:** Holding · **What happens:** hold, make · **To what, where:** long stretches, sprint, you

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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 (Holding), 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:9
# text = Holding long stretches just before a sprint can make you slightly slower.
# 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): no change
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stretches	stretch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sprint	sprint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **hold** | gerund |  | long stretches |  | a sprint |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stretch=Theme before sprint=Location |
| 2 | **make** | can | Holding | you |  |  |  | slow *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

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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): no change. **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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