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title: A girl in Colorado sledded head first towards a tree; she could not… — Rackets, running with things in your mouth, foot… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: girl. 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 cou
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# Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear, sentence 15

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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.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** sled, not steer away, break, hit · **To what, where:** head, tree, arm

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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 (girl), 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:15
# text = 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.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sledded	sled	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
8	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	steer	steer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **sled** | past | a girl in Colorado | head |  | a tree |  | first *property* | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards tree=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **steer away** | could | girl |  |  |  | time | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **break** | past | girl *not said here* | girl's arm |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=Patient |
| 4 | **hit** | past | girl *not said here* | girl's head |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=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:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice.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 ×2, 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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