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title: Running flat out uses the muscles' fast fuel, which runs low within… — Running, gymnastics and martial arts · tree and pragmatics
description: Running flat out uses the muscles' fast fuel, which runs low within about a minute, so in longer races an even pace works better. Who acts: Running, fast fuel, even pace. A sentence of the lesson «Running, gymnastics and martial arts» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Running, gymnastics and martial arts, sentence 6

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Running flat out uses the muscles' fast fuel, which runs low within about a minute, so in longer races an even pace works better.

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**Who acts:** Running, fast fuel, even pace · **What happens:** run, use, work · **To what, where:** fast fuel

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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 (Running, fast fuel, even pace), 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:6
# text = Running flat out uses the muscles' fast fuel, which runs low within about a minute, so in longer races an even pace works better.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	even	even	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
25	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present | Running | the muscles's fast fuel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fuel=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | present | the muscles's fast fuel |  |  |  | minute | low *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **work** | present | a even pace |  |  |  |  | in longer races; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in race=Theme |

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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 ×2, R7-rel-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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