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title: Cold muscles are stiffer and get strained more easily than warm ones. — The kid who is always on the bench · tree and pragmatics
description: Cold muscles are stiffer and get strained more easily than warm ones. Who acts: Cold muscles. A sentence of the lesson «The kid who is always on the bench» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The kid who is always on the bench, sentence 6

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Cold muscles are stiffer and get strained more easily than warm ones.

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**Who acts:** Cold muscles · **What happens:** be, get, strain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who is always on the bench» 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 (Cold muscles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:6
# text = Cold muscles are stiffer and get strained more easily than warm ones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.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): no change
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	stiffer	stiff	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	strained	strain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Cold muscles |  |  |  |  | stiff *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | Cold muscles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **strain** | participle | Cold muscles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than warm ones; easily *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:6`.

**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): no change. **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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