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title: On ice, bend your knees and lean a little forward, and if you go dow… — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating · tree and pragmatics
description: On ice, bend your knees and lean a little forward, and if you go down keep your hands close so no blade passes over your fingers. Who acts: you, blade. A sentence of the lesson «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating, sentence 5

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On ice, bend your knees and lean a little forward, and if you go down keep your hands close so no blade passes over your fingers.

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**Who acts:** you, blade · **What happens:** bend, lean, go down, keep, pass · **To what, where:** knees, ice, little, hands, fingers

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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, blade), 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:5
# text = On ice, bend your knees and lean a little forward, and if you go down keep your hands close so no blade passes over your fingers.
# 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 ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lean	lean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | imperative | you *not said here* | your knees |  | ice |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent knee=Theme on ice=Location |
| 2 | **lean** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a little |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your hands |  |  |  | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | present | no blade |  |  | your fingers |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over finger=Location |

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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 ×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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