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title: In a forward roll the chin tucks to the chest so the back of the sho… — Running, gymnastics and martial arts · tree and pragmatics
description: In a forward roll the chin tucks to the chest so the back of the shoulders takes the weight; rolling on the top of the head bends the neck badly. Who acts: chin, back, rolling. A sentence of the lesson «Running, gymnastics and martial arts» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Running, gymnastics and martial arts, sentence 11

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In a forward roll the chin tucks to the chest so the back of the shoulders takes the weight; rolling on the top of the head bends the neck badly.

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**Who acts:** chin, back, rolling · **What happens:** tuck, take, rolling, bend · **To what, where:** forward roll, weight, top, neck

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Running, gymnastics and martial arts» 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 (chin, back, rolling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:043-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts.lesson:11
# text = In a forward roll the chin tucks to the chest so the back of the shoulders takes the weight; rolling on the top of the head bends the neck badly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 043-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts.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 ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	forward	forward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tucks	tuck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	rolling	rolling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **tuck** | present | the chin |  |  | a forward roll |  | to the chest | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in roll=Trajectory |
| 2 | **take** | present | the back of the shoulders | the weight |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
| 3 | **rolling** | gerund |  |  |  | the top of the head |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bend** | present | rolling | the neck |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material |

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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:043-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts.lesson:11`.

**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 ×2. **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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