--- title: A hard ball moves fast enough to break a nose, a tooth or a cheekbon… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics description: A hard ball moves fast enough to break a nose, a tooth or a cheekbone, which is why helmets, face guards and mouth guards are worn. Who acts: hard ball. 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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 (hard ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:22 # text = A hard ball moves fast enough to break a nose, a tooth or a cheekbone, which is why helmets, face guards and mouth guards are worn. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 6 enough enough ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cheekbone cheekbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 21 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 worn worn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | a hard ball | | | | | enough *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **break** | to-infinitive | a hard ball *not said here* | a nose and a tooth or a cheekbone | | | | fast *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **worn** | present · passive | | helmets and face guards and mouth guards | | | | | tree rules | 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:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:22`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Music practice and ball games, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/20/) - next →: [Music practice and ball games, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/)