--- title: People lean away from a heavy bag to bring their centre of gravity b… — Balance: the centre of gravity · tree and pragmatics description: People lean away from a heavy bag to bring their centre of gravity back over their feet, and two bags, one in each hand, are easier than one twice as heavy. Who acts: People, two bags. 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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 (People, two bags), 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:12 # text = People lean away from a heavy bag to bring their centre of gravity back over their feet, and two bags, one in each hand, are easier than one twice as heavy. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lean lean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 conj _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obl _ _ 32 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 29 advmod _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 34 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 away** | present | People | | | a heavy bag | | away *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | People's centre of gravity | | People's feet | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent centre=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | two bags | | | | | than one; heavy *obl*; easy, twice *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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, 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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/11/) - next →: [Balance: the centre of gravity, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/)