--- title: A good serve is a chain from the legs through the hips and body to t… — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating · tree and pragmatics description: A good serve is a chain from the legs through the hips and body to the arm; too many hard serves day after day can overload the shoulder. Who acts: good serve, serves day. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good serve, serves day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.lesson:13 # text = A good serve is a chain from the legs through the hips and body to the arm; too many hard serves day after day can overload the shoulder. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 serve serve NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hips hip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 serves serve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 compound _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 overload overload VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a good serve | a chain | | the legs through the hips and body to the arm | | | tree rules | | 2 | **overload** | can | serves day after day | the shoulder | | | | | vn spray-9.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme | 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. **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:044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/12/) - next →: [Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/)