--- title: When you lean forward, your hips go back to keep your balance, so wi… — Balance: the centre of gravity · tree and pragmatics description: When you lean forward, your hips go back to keep your balance, so with your back against a wall you cannot touch your toes. Who acts: you, hips, your. A sentence of the lesson «Balance: the centre of gravity» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Balance: the centre of gravity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/) / 10 # Balance: the centre of gravity, sentence 10 When you lean forward, your hips go back to keep your balance, so with your back against a wall you cannot touch your toes. **Who acts:** you, hips, your · **What happens:** lean, go back, keep, not touch, balance · **To what, where:** balance, toes This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance: the centre of gravity» of the physics 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 (you, hips, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:008-balance-the-centre-of-gravity.lesson:10 # text = When you lean forward, your hips go back to keep your balance, so with your back against a wall you cannot touch your toes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 008-balance-the-centre-of-gravity.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lean lean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 forward forward ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 hips hip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 19 against against ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lean** | present | you | | | | | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go back** | present | your hips | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | your hips *not said here* | your balance | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Theme | | 4 | **not** **touch** | can | you | your toes | | | | with your back against a wall | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent toe=Experiencer with back=Instrument | | 5 | **balance** | | your | | | | | | nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:physics:008-balance-the-centre-of-gravity.lesson:10`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Balance: the centre of gravity, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/9/) - next →: [Balance: the centre of gravity, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/)