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title: Long, still stretches before exercise don't prevent most injuries; a… — Moving, swimming and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Long, still stretches before exercise don't prevent most injuries; a gentle warm-up of moving and jogging is better. Who acts: Long stretches, gentle warm up. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, swimming and sport» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Moving, swimming and sport, sentence 7

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Long, still stretches before exercise don't prevent most injuries; a gentle warm-up of moving and jogging is better.

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**Who acts:** Long stretches, gentle warm up · **What happens:** not prevent, move, be · **To what, where:** most injuries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, swimming and sport» of the myths 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 (Long stretches, gentle warm up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:005-moving-swimming-and-sport.lesson:7
# text = Long, still stretches before exercise don't prevent most injuries; a gentle warm-up of moving and jogging is better.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 005-moving-swimming-and-sport.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stretches	stretch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
17	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	jogging	jogging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **prevent** | present · do-support | Long stretches before exercise | most injuries |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer injury=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | a gentle warm up |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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:myths:005-moving-swimming-and-sport.lesson:7`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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