--- title: Your body balances all the time without you noticing: when you lean… — Balance: the centre of gravity · tree and pragmatics description: Your body balances all the time without you noticing: when you lean forward, your bottom goes back, and your eyes and inner ears tell your brain which way you are tilting. Who acts: body, you, bottom, eyes. 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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 (body, you, bottom, eyes), 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:3 # text = Your body balances all the time without you noticing: when you lean forward, your bottom goes back, and your eyes and inner ears tell your brain which way you are tilting. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 balances balance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 7 without without SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 noticing notice VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lean lean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 14 forward forward ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 inner inner ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 27 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 30 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 31 det _ _ 31 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obl:unmarked 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 tilting tilt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 ccomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **balance** | present | Your body | | | | time | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **notice** | gerund | you | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **lean** | present | you | | | | | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go back** | present | your bottom | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | your eyes and inner ears | | your brain | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent brain=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **tilt** | present · progressive | you | which way | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×3, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/1/) - next →: [Balance: the centre of gravity, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/)