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title: Muscles get stronger by working and then repairing during rest, and… — Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter · tree and pragmatics
description: Muscles get stronger by working and then repairing during rest, and the heart and lungs get fitter the same way: little and often, not one giant effort. Who acts: Muscles, heart. A sentence of the lesson «Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school w
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# Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter, sentence 1

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Muscles get stronger by working and then repairing during rest, and the heart and lungs get fitter the same way: little and often, not one giant effort.

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**Who acts:** Muscles, heart · **What happens:** get, work, repair

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscles: getting stronger and getting fitter» 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 (Muscles, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:038-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter.lesson:1
# text = Muscles get stronger by working and then repairing during rest, and the heart and lungs get fitter the same way: little and often, not one giant effort.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 038-muscles-getting-stronger-and-getting-fitter.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	repairing	repair	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	fitter	fit	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **get** | present | Muscles |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | Muscles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **repair** | gerund | Muscles *not said here* |  |  |  | during rest; then |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | present | the heart and lungs |  |  |  |  | fit *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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): R5-strong ×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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