--- title: Falling from a crouch is a shorter drop than from standing; skaters… — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating · tree and pragmatics description: Falling from a crouch is a shorter drop than from standing; skaters learn to roll onto the shoulder or slide on knee pads instead of putting a stiff arm out. Who acts: Falling, shorter drop, skaters. 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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 (Falling, shorter drop, skaters), 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:16 # text = Falling from a crouch is a shorter drop than from standing; skaters learn to roll onto the shoulder or slide on knee pads instead of putting a stiff arm out. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Falling fall VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 crouch crouch NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 than than SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 skaters skater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 onto onto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 slide slide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 25 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 27 mark _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 25 fixed _ _ 27 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 out out ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | gerund | | | | a crouch | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from crouch=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | Falling | a shorter drop | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stand** | gerund | a shorter drop *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **learn** | present | skaters | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **roll** | to-infinitive | skaters *not said here* | | | the shoulder | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto shoulder=Trajectory | | 6 | **slide** | infinitive | skaters *not said here* | | | knee pads | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pad=Trajectory | | 7 | **put** | gerund | skaters *not said here* | a stiff arm | | | | out *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal | 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:16`. **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. **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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