--- title: You cannot burn fat from one spot by exercising that spot; sit-ups m… — Moving, swimming and sport · tree and pragmatics description: You cannot burn fat from one spot by exercising that spot; sit-ups make tummy muscles stronger but do not melt tummy fat. Who acts: You, sit ups. 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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 (You, sit ups), 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:9 # text = You cannot burn fat from one spot by exercising that spot; sit-ups make tummy muscles stronger but do not melt tummy fat. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 by by SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 exercising exercise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 sit sit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 16 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 20 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 melt melt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 25 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **burn** | can | You | fat | | one spot | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | | 2 | **exercise** | gerund | You *not said here* | that spot | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | sit ups | | | | | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **not** **melt** | infinitive · do-support | sit ups *not said here* | tummy fat | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fat=Result | 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:005-moving-swimming-and-sport.lesson:9`. **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: [Moving, swimming and sport, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/5-moving-swimming-and-sport/8/) - next →: [Moving, swimming and sport, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/5-moving-swimming-and-sport/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/5-moving-swimming-and-sport/)