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title: In ball games, safety and fairness come first: protect your face fro… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: In ball games, safety and fairness come first: protect your face from a flying ball, throw low in dodgeball, and let everybody have a turn. Who acts: safety, everybody. A sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Music practice and ball games, sentence 3

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In ball games, safety and fairness come first: protect your face from a flying ball, throw low in dodgeball, and let everybody have a turn.

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**Who acts:** safety, everybody · **What happens:** come, protect, fly, throw, let, have · **To what, where:** ball games, face, dodgeball, everybody, turn

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» 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 (safety, everybody), 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:3
# text = In ball games, safety and fairness come first: protect your face from a flying ball, throw low in dodgeball, and let everybody have a turn.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fairness	fairness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	low	low	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dodgeball	dodgeball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	obj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **come** | present | safety and fairness |  |  | ball games |  | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=Location |
| 2 | **protect** | infinitive |  | your face |  |  |  | from a flying ball | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Beneficiary from ball=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | infinitive |  |  |  | dodgeball |  | low *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in dodgeball=Destination |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive |  | everybody |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | infinitive | everybody *not said here* | a turn |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=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:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:3`.

**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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