--- title: Slouching does not give children a hunchback (a back bent into a hum… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics description: Slouching does not give children a hunchback (a back bent into a hump); moving about and strong muscles matter more, though sitting badly for hours can cause aches. Who acts: moving, sitting. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moving, sitting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:14 # text = Slouching does not give children a hunchback (a back bent into a hump); moving about and strong muscles matter more, though sitting badly for hours can cause aches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Slouching slouch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 give give VERB VB Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hunchback hunchback NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hump hump NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 17 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 18 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 though though SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj 27 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 32 aches ache NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slouch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | | a hunchback | children | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient hunchback=Theme | | 3 | **bend** | participle | | a back *not said here* | | a hump | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into hump=Product | | 4 | **move about** | gerund | | | | | | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **matter** | present | moving | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **sit** | gerund | | | | | hour | badly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **cause** | can | sitting | aches | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ache=Patient | 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:myths:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.lesson:14`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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