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title: Flips and backflips are not tried without a trained coach, because l… — Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing · tree and pragmatics
description: Flips and backflips are not tried without a trained coach, because landing on the head can cause a serious neck injury. Who acts: landing. A sentence of the lesson «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing, sentence 7

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Flips and backflips are not tried without a trained coach, because landing on the head can cause a serious neck injury.

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**Who acts:** landing · **What happens:** not try, train, land, cause · **To what, where:** Flips, head, serious neck injury

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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 (landing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.lesson:7
# text = Flips and backflips are not tried without a trained coach, because landing on the head can cause a serious neck injury.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.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	Flips	flip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	backflips	backflip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	landing	land	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **try** | present · passive |  | Flips and backflips |  |  |  | without a trained coach | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **land** | gerund |  |  |  | the head |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on head=Destination |
| 4 | **cause** | can | landing | a serious neck 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:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing.lesson:7`.

**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.

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

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