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title: A high-school football player in Texas kept playing after a big hit… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: A high-school football player in Texas kept playing after a big hit to the head because he felt "okay"; a second hit made it much worse, and he was off school for weeks. Who acts: school football player, player, second hit. A sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the eve
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# Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 19

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A high-school football player in Texas kept playing after a big hit to the head because he felt "okay"; a second hit made it much worse, and he was off school for weeks.

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**Who acts:** school football player, player, second hit · **What happens:** keep, play, feel, make, be · **To what, where:** head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» 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 (school football player, player, second hit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.lesson:19
# text = A high-school football player in Texas kept playing after a big hit to the head because he felt "okay"; a second hit made it much worse, and he was off school for weeks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	xcomp	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
37	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **keep** | past | a school football player in Texas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | a school football player in Texas *not said here* |  |  |  | after a big hit to the head |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** | past | player |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | past | a second hit | head |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 5 | **is** | past | player |  |  |  | week | off school | tree rules |

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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:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.lesson:19`.

**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 ×2. **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.

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