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title: Backs and necks love moving and hate staying stuck; no chair can hol… — Posture and eyes for sporty kids · tree and pragmatics
description: Backs and necks love moving and hate staying stuck; no chair can hold you up if you slide down into it, so the best posture is the next one: get up, stretch and change position every half hour. Who acts: Backs, chair, you, best posture. A sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» of 
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# Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 0

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Backs and necks love moving and hate staying stuck; no chair can hold you up if you slide down into it, so the best posture is the next one: get up, stretch and change position every half hour.

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**Who acts:** Backs, chair, you, best posture · **What happens:** love, move, hate, stay, hold up, slide down · **To what, where:** you, chair, next one, position

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» 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 (Backs, chair, you, best posture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:0
# text = Backs and necks love moving and hate staying stuck; no chair can hold you up if you slide down into it, so the best posture is the next one: get up, stretch and change position every half hour.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
7	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	slide	slide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	posture	posture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
33	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:csubj
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=36:cc
38	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
39	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
41	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	42	amod	_	_
42	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **love** | present | Backs and necks |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **move** *not said to happen* | gerund | Backs and necks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hate** | present | Backs and necks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stay** *not said to happen* | gerund | Backs and necks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hold up** | can | no chair | you |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 6 | **slide down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  | chair |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
| 7 | **is a** | present | the best posture | the next one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **get up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **stretch** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 10 | **change** | infinitive |  | position |  |  | hour |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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