--- title: Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Many sports injuries are easy to avoid: keep a safe di --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Rackets, running with things in your m… # Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear Lesson 328 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/0/) — Many sports injuries are easy to avoid: keep a safe distance from someone swinging a tennis racket, and never run with a lollipop or pencil in your mouth or something sharp in your hand. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/1/) — The word «football» means different games: soccer in the UK, Ireland and most of the world, American football in the USA and Canada, and often Australian rules or rugby league in Australia. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/3/) — Example: a girl in Colorado goes sledding (sledging in the UK) feet first, sitting up, on a hill away from roads, trees and ponds, and she stops when it gets dark. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/4/) — Getting better takes practice: when you get frustrated, break the skill into small steps; if you will miss practice, tell the coach in advance; and clean shared helmets and gloves. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/5/) — Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket in tennis or badminton, because rackets can hit faces. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/6/) — Never run with a lollipop or pencil in your mouth or sharp things in your hand; a fall can push it into your throat or eye. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/8/) — In soccer, an attacker is offside if they are behind the last defender (nearer the other team's goal than every defender except the goalkeeper) when the ball is passed forward to them. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/9/) — Never climb on or hang from a soccer goal; unanchored goals can fall and crush children, so tell an adult if one wobbles. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/10/) — Sled feet first, sitting up, on a hill away from roads, trees and ponds; head-first sledding causes injuries. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/11/) — Stop sledding when it gets dark, because you cannot see obstacles. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/12/) — When you get frustrated in practice, break the skill into small steps; small steps lead to big improvement. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/13/) — If you will miss practice, tell the coach in advance, because the team plans around you. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/14/) — Clean shared helmets and gloves, because shared gear can spread germs and head lice (tiny insects in hair; their eggs are called nits). - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/15/) — A girl in Colorado sledded head first towards a tree; she could not steer away in time and broke her arm and hit her head. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/16/) — A boy in England stood close to a friend practising tennis serves; the racket hit him in the face and broke his nose. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/17/) — Sledding head first makes head and neck injuries more likely. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/18/) — Rackets and bats swung near people cause many face and eye injuries. - ← previous: [Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts/) - next →: [Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthquake drills, pick-up, phones, tidy desks, homework and group work](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)