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title: After a bang on the head, feeling sick, dizzy or very sleepy is a wa… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: After a bang on the head, feeling sick, dizzy or very sleepy is a warning sign: tell an adult at once, because you may need a doctor. Who acts: feeling, you. A sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Balance and falling well, sentence 20

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After a bang on the head, feeling sick, dizzy or very sleepy is a warning sign: tell an adult at once, because you may need a doctor.

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**Who acts:** feeling, you · **What happens:** feel, be, tell, need · **To what, where:** warning sign, adult, doctor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» of the everyday 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 (feeling, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:20
# text = After a bang on the head, feeling sick, dizzy or very sleepy is a warning sign: tell an adult at once, because you may need a doctor.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 002-balance-and-falling-well.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
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
9	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:acl
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | feeling | a warning sign |  |  | after a bang on the head |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **need** | may | you | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme |

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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:everyday:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:20`.

**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. **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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