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title: Being winded is a short cramp of the diaphragm, the breathing muscle… — Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, win… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being winded is a short cramp of the diaphragm, the breathing muscle under the ribs; sitting calmly with slow breaths helps, and slapping the back or lifting the arms has no good proof behind it. Who acts: sitting, slapping. A sentence of the lesson «Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, wind
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# Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and when to stop, sentence 7

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Being winded is a short cramp of the diaphragm, the breathing muscle under the ribs; sitting calmly with slow breaths helps, and slapping the back or lifting the arms has no good proof behind it.

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**Who acts:** sitting, slapping · **What happens:** wind, be, sit, help, slap, lift · **To what, where:** short cramp, back, arms, good proof, muscle

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and when to stop» 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 (sitting, slapping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:046-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded.lesson:7
# text = Being winded is a short cramp of the diaphragm, the breathing muscle under the ribs; sitting calmly with slow breaths helps, and slapping the back or lifting the arms has no good proof behind it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 046-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux	_	_
2	winded	wind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	csubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cramp	cramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
19	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	breaths	breath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	slapping	slap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	csubj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **wind** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a short cramp |  |  |  | of the diaphragm | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with slow breaths; calmly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **help** | present | sitting |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **slap** | gerund |  | the back |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient |
| 6 | **lift** | gerund |  | the arms |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | present | slapping | no good proof |  | muscle |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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