--- title: A boy in England stood close to a friend practising tennis serves; t… — Rackets, running with things in your mouth, foot… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in England stood close to a friend practising tennis serves; the racket hit him in the face and broke his nose. Who acts: boy, friend, racket. A sentence of the lesson «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear» of the ev --- [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/16/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/) / 16 # Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear, sentence 16 A boy in England stood close to a friend practising tennis serves; the racket hit him in the face and broke his nose. **Who acts:** boy, friend, racket · **What happens:** stand, practise, hit, break · **To what, where:** tennis serves, boy, face, nose 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 (boy, friend, racket), 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:16 # text = A boy in England stood close to a friend practising tennis serves; the racket hit him in the face and broke his nose. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 practising practise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 tennis tennis NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 serves serve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 racket racket NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | a boy in England | | | | | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **practise** | gerund | a friend *not said here* | tennis serves | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hit** | past | the racket | boy | | the face | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in face=Destination | | 4 | **break** | past | the racket *not said here* | boy's nose | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=Patient | 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. **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:16`. **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. 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