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title: Sit in the middle of a swing, hold on with both hands and stop it be… — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics
description: Sit in the middle of a swing, hold on with both hands and stop it before getting off, because jumping off is a common cause of broken arms. Who acts: you, jumping. A sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, sentence 16

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Sit in the middle of a swing, hold on with both hands and stop it before getting off, because jumping off is a common cause of broken arms.

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**Who acts:** you, jumping · **What happens:** sit, hold on, stop, get off, jump off, be · **To what, where:** middle, hand, common cause

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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 (you, jumping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:16
# text = Sit in the middle of a swing, hold on with both hands and stop it before getting off, because jumping off is a common cause of broken arms.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 228-parks-and-playgrounds.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
9	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
30	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **sit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the middle of a swing |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
| 2 | **hold on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with both hands | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | infinitive | you *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **get off** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **jump off** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | jumping | a common cause |  |  |  | of broken arms | tree rules |
| 7 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: 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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**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): R2-punct-next ×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/).

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