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title: Gymnastics is about control: a forward roll lands on the back of the… — Running, gymnastics and martial arts · tree and pragmatics
description: Gymnastics is about control: a forward roll lands on the back of the shoulders with the chin tucked, never on the top of the head, and flips are learned over months with a coach, spotters and thick mats, never from a video on the sofa. Who acts: Gymnastics, forward roll. A sentence of the lesson «Ru
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# Running, gymnastics and martial arts, sentence 2

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Gymnastics is about control: a forward roll lands on the back of the shoulders with the chin tucked, never on the top of the head, and flips are learned over months with a coach, spotters and thick mats, never from a video on the sofa.

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**Who acts:** Gymnastics, forward roll · **What happens:** be, land, tuck, learn · **To what, where:** back, chin, flips, video

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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 (Gymnastics, forward roll), 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:2
# text = Gymnastics is about control: a forward roll lands on the back of the shoulders with the chin tucked, never on the top of the head, and flips are learned over months with a coach, spotters and thick mats, never from a video on the sofa.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Gymnastics	gymnastics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod
4	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	forward	forward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
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	9	conj	_	_
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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	flips	flip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	spotters	spotter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=39:conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Gymnastics |  |  |  |  | about control | tree rules |
| 2 | **land** | present | a forward roll |  |  | the back of the shoulders |  | with the chin | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on back=Destination |
| 3 | **tuck** | participle |  | the chin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **learn** | present · passive |  | flips |  | a video on the sofa | month | with a coach and spotters and thick mats | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from video=Source |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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