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title: Judo starts with break-falls: chin tucked and the arm slapping the m… — Running, gymnastics and martial arts · tree and pragmatics
description: Judo starts with break-falls: chin tucked and the arm slapping the mat spread the landing and keep the head off the floor; sticking a straight arm out can break a wrist. Who acts: Judo, arm, sticking. A sentence of the lesson «Running, gymnastics and martial arts» of the medicine course of Mova's pr
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# Running, gymnastics and martial arts, sentence 17

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Judo starts with break-falls: chin tucked and the arm slapping the mat spread the landing and keep the head off the floor; sticking a straight arm out can break a wrist.

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**Who acts:** Judo, arm, sticking · **What happens:** start, tuck, slap, spread, keep, stick · **To what, where:** chin, mat, landing, head, straight arm, wrist

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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 (Judo, arm, sticking), 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:17
# text = Judo starts with break-falls: chin tucked and the arm slapping the mat spread the landing and keep the head off the floor; sticking a straight arm out can break a wrist.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Judo	judo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	falls	fall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	slapping	slap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	csubj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	out	out	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **start** | present | Judo |  |  |  |  | with break falls | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with fall=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **tuck** | participle |  | chin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **slap** | gerund | the arm *not said here* | the mat |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mat=Patient |
| 4 | **spread** | past | the arm | the landing |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location landing=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | infinitive | the arm *not said here* | the head |  |  |  | off the floor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 6 | **stick** | gerund |  | a straight arm |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 7 | **break** | can | sticking | a wrist |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

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