--- title: Sitting still for hours stiffens the back and neck; getting up and m… — Posture and eyes for sporty kids · tree and pragmatics description: Sitting still for hours stiffens the back and neck; getting up and moving often helps more than any special chair. Who acts: Sitting, getting. A sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Posture and eyes for sporty kids](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/) / 4 # Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 4 Sitting still for hours stiffens the back and neck; getting up and moving often helps more than any special chair. **Who acts:** Sitting, getting · **What happens:** sitting, stiffen, get up, move, help · **To what, where:** back, more 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 (Sitting, getting), 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:4 # text = Sitting still for hours stiffens the back and neck; getting up and moving often helps more than any special chair. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sitting Sitting VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 5 stiffens stiffen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 obj _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 20 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sitting** | gerund | | | | | still; hour | | tree rules | | 2 | **stiffen** | present | Sitting | the back and neck | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent back=Patient | | 3 | **get up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **help** | present | getting | more | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary | 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:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.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/). - ← previous: [Posture and eyes for sporty kids, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/3/) - next →: [Posture and eyes for sporty kids, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/58-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids/)