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title: Crouch low, and roll when you fall instead of slamming down a stiff… — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating · tree and pragmatics
description: Crouch low, and roll when you fall instead of slamming down a stiff arm. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating, sentence 4

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Crouch low, and roll when you fall instead of slamming down a stiff arm.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** crouch, roll, fall, slam down · **To what, where:** stiff arm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» 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 (you), 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:4
# text = Crouch low, and roll when you fall instead of slamming down a stiff arm.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Crouch	crouch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	11	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	slamming	slam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **crouch** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roll** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **slam down** | gerund | you *not said here* | a stiff arm |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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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**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:4`.

**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 ×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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