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description: An adult head weighs about 5 kg; a study reported that bending it far forward over a phone loads the neck like about 27 kg; holding the phone up nearer eye level keeps the head upright. Who acts: adult head, study, bending, holding. A sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» of the 
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# Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 5

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An adult head weighs about 5 kg; a study reported that bending it far forward over a phone loads the neck like about 27 kg; holding the phone up nearer eye level keeps the head upright.

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**Who acts:** adult head, study, bending, holding · **What happens:** weigh, report, bend, load, hold up, keep · **To what, where:** 5 kg, study, phone, neck, head

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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 (adult head, study, bending, holding), 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:5
# text = An adult head weighs about 5 kg; a study reported that bending it far forward over a phone loads the neck like about 27 kg; holding the phone up nearer eye level keeps the head upright.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
4	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
13	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	loads	load	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
28	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	csubj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
32	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
33	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obj
38	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **weigh** | present | a adult head | 5 kg |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value |
| 2 | **report** | past | a study |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **bend** | gerund |  | study |  | a phone |  | forward *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme over phone=Location |
| 4 | **load** | present | bending | the neck |  |  |  | like 27 kg | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme |
| 5 | **hold up** | gerund |  | the phone |  |  |  | nearer eye level *obl:unmarked* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot phone=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | present | holding | the head |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |

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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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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