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title: In ice hockey, where players chase a puck (a flat rubber disc), the… — Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming · tree and pragmatics
description: In ice hockey, where players chase a puck (a flat rubber disc), the stick is kept below the shoulders, because a high stick can injure faces. Who acts: players, high stick. A sentence of the lesson «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with
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# Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming, sentence 14

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In ice hockey, where players chase a puck (a flat rubber disc), the stick is kept below the shoulders, because a high stick can injure faces.

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**Who acts:** players, high stick · **What happens:** chase, keep, injure · **To what, where:** puck, stick, ice hockey, faces

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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 (players, high stick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey.lesson:14
# text = In ice hockey, where players chase a puck (a flat rubber disc), the stick is kept below the shoulders, because a high stick can injure faces.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hockey	hockey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
6	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	puck	puck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	disc	disc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	below	below	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
31	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **chase** | present | players | a puck |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puck=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present · passive |  | the stick |  | ice hockey |  | below the shoulders | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in hockey=Location |
| 3 | **injure** | can | a high stick | faces |  |  |  |  | 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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**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): 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.

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