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title: Many sports injuries are easy to avoid: keep a safe distance from so… — Rackets, running with things in your mouth, foot… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Many sports injuries. A sentence of the lesson «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or
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# Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** Many sports injuries · **What happens:** be, avoid, keep, swing, not run · **To what, where:** safe distance, someone, tennis racket

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear» 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 (Many sports injuries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:csubj
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
15	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tennis	tennis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	racket	racket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj
33	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Many sports injuries |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | Many sports injuries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | Many sports injuries *not said here* | a safe distance |  | someone |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer distance=Beneficiary from someone=Eventuality |
| 4 | **swing** | gerund |  | a tennis racket |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent racket=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **run** | infinitive | Many sports injuries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a lollipop in your mouth or pencil | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with lollipop=Material |

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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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**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 ×3, 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.

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