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title: Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket or bat, because i… — Console games, building, crafts, music and ball… · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket or bat, because it can hit your face. Who acts: you, distance. A sentence of the lesson «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games, sentence 18

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Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket or bat, because it can hit your face.

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**Who acts:** you, distance · **What happens:** keep, swing, hit · **To what, where:** safe distance, anyone, racket, face

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» 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 (you, distance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:18
# text = Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket or bat, because it can hit your face.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.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): no change
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
7	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	racket	racket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | a safe distance |  | anyone |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer distance=Beneficiary from anyone=Eventuality |
| 2 | **swing** | gerund |  | a racket or bat |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent racket=Theme |
| 3 | **hit** | can | distance | your face |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Co-Theme |

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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:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music.lesson:18`.

**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): no change. **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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