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title: Rings, earrings and necklaces come off before sport, because they ca… — Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming · tree and pragmatics
description: Rings, earrings and necklaces come off before sport, because they can catch and tear skin; in the pool, goggles stop the chlorine stinging your eyes. Who acts: Rings, goggles, chlorine. A sentence of the lesson «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» of the everyday course of Mova's primar
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# Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming, sentence 3

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Rings, earrings and necklaces come off before sport, because they can catch and tear skin; in the pool, goggles stop the chlorine stinging your eyes.

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**Who acts:** Rings, goggles, chlorine · **What happens:** come off, catch, tear, stop, sting · **To what, where:** sport, skin, chlorine, pool, eyes

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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 (Rings, goggles, chlorine), 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:3
# text = Rings, earrings and necklaces come off before sport, because they can catch and tear skin; in the pool, goggles stop the chlorine stinging your eyes.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	earrings	earring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	necklaces	necklace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	goggles	goggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	chlorine	chlorine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **come off** | present | Rings and earrings and necklaces |  |  | sport |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before sport=Location |
| 2 | **catch** | can | Rings *= ring* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tear** | infinitive | Rings *= ring* *not said here* | skin |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location skin=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | present | goggles | the chlorine |  | the pool |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality chlorine=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sting** | gerund | the chlorine *not said here* | your eyes |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer |

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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): R3-conj-first ×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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