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title: Muscles that are not used become weaker. — Sleep, exercise and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Muscles that are not used become weaker. Who acts: Muscles. A sentence of the lesson «Sleep, exercise and growing up» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sleep, exercise and growing up, sentence 16

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Muscles that are not used become weaker.

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**Who acts:** Muscles · **What happens:** not use, become · **To what, where:** Muscles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep, exercise and growing up» of the world 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 (Muscles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:038-sleep-exercise-growing.lesson:16
# text = Muscles that are not used become weaker.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 038-sleep-exercise-growing.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	Muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **use** | present · passive |  | Muscles |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | present | Muscles |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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:world:038-sleep-exercise-growing.lesson:16`.

**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/).

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