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title: A concussion (a brain injury from a knock to the head) can happen wi… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: A concussion (a brain injury from a knock to the head) can happen without being knocked out, and playing on after a head injury can make it much more serious. Who acts: concussion. A sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 20

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A concussion (a brain injury from a knock to the head) can happen without being knocked out, and playing on after a head injury can make it much more serious.

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**Who acts:** concussion · **What happens:** happen, knock out, play on, make · **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 (concussion), 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:20
# text = A concussion (a brain injury from a knock to the head) can happen without being knocked out, and playing on after a head injury can make it much more serious.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	concussion	concussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **happen** | can | a concussion |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **knock out** | gerund · passive | a concussion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» |
| 3 | **play on** | gerund | a concussion *not said here* |  |  |  | after a head injury |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | can | a concussion *not said here* | head |  |  |  | serious *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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): R5-strong ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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