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title: A boy in New Zealand swung on a portable football goal at the park;… — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in New Zealand swung on a portable football goal at the park; it tipped over on top of him and broke his collarbone. Who acts: boy, sledding. 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 a
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# Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports, sentence 18

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A boy in New Zealand swung on a portable football goal at the park; it tipped over on top of him and broke his collarbone.

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**Who acts:** boy, sledding · **What happens:** swing, tip over, break · **To what, where:** portable football goal, top, collarbone

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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 (boy, sledding), 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:18
# text = A boy in New Zealand swung on a portable football goal at the park; it tipped over on top of him and broke his collarbone.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	_	5	compound	_	_
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	portable	portable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tipped	tip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	collarbone	collarbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **swing** | past | a boy in New Zealand |  |  | a portable football goal |  | at the park | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on goal=Source at park=Trajectory |
| 2 | **tip over** | past | sledding |  |  | top of boy |  | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on top=Destination |
| 3 | **break** | past | sledding *not said here* | boy's collarbone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer collarbone=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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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

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