--- title: Standing on one leg, you keep moving to keep your centre of gravity… — Balance: the centre of gravity · tree and pragmatics description: Standing on one leg, you keep moving to keep your centre of gravity over your foot, and with your eyes shut it gets much harder. Who acts: you, centre. 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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Balance: the centre of gravity, sentence 6 Standing on one leg, you keep moving to keep your centre of gravity over your foot, and with your eyes shut it gets much harder. **Who acts:** you, centre · **What happens:** stand, keep, move, get · **To what, where:** one leg, centre, foot 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, centre), 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:6 # text = Standing on one leg, you keep moving to keep your centre of gravity over your foot, and with your eyes shut it gets much harder. # 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): no change 1 Standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 xcomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 23 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | one leg | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | | 2 | **keep** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **move** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your centre of gravity | | your foot | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent centre=Theme over foot=Location | | 5 | **get** | present | centre | | | | | with your eyes; hard *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:6`. **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): no change. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/5/) - next →: [Balance: the centre of gravity, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/)