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title: When someone swings a golf club, you stand well back and to the side… — Running games and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: When someone swings a golf club, you stand well back and to the side, because a club or ball can cause a serious head injury. Who acts: someone, you, club. A sentence of the lesson «Running games and the playground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Running games and the playground, sentence 5

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When someone swings a golf club, you stand well back and to the side, because a club or ball can cause a serious head injury.

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**Who acts:** someone, you, club · **What happens:** swing, stand, cause · **To what, where:** golf club, serious head injury

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Running games and the playground» 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 (someone, you, club), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:247-running-games-and-playground.lesson:5
# text = When someone swings a golf club, you stand well back and to the side, because a club or ball can cause a serious head injury.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 247-running-games-and-playground.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	swings	swing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golf	golf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **swing** | present | someone | a golf club |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cause** | can | a club or ball | a serious head injury |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=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:247-running-games-and-playground.lesson:5`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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