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title: Do not try backflips without a trained coach; landing on the head ca… — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports · tree and pragmatics
description: Do not try backflips without a trained coach; landing on the head can cause serious neck injury. Who acts: you, landing. A sentence of the lesson «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports, sentence 15

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Do not try backflips without a trained coach; landing on the head can cause serious neck injury.

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

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» 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, landing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.lesson:15
# text = Do not try backflips without a trained coach; landing on the head can cause serious neck injury.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.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 ×1
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	backflips	backflip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	landing	land	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **try** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | backflips |  |  |  | without a trained coach | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backflip=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 | 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:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.lesson:15`.

**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 ×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.

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

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