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title: Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket in tennis or badm… — Rackets, running with things in your mouth, foot… · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket in tennis or badminton, because rackets can hit faces. Who acts: you, rackets. 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 Mo
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# Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear, sentence 5

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Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket in tennis or badminton, because rackets can hit faces.

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**Who acts:** you, rackets · **What happens:** keep, swing, hit · **To what, where:** safe distance, anyone, racket, tennis, faces

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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 (you, rackets), 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:5
# text = Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket in tennis or badminton, because rackets can hit faces.
# 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): no change
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod	_	_
7	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	racket	racket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tennis	tennis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	badminton	badminton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	rackets	racket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
19	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | a safe distance |  | anyone |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer distance=Beneficiary from anyone=Eventuality |
| 2 | **swing** | gerund |  | a racket |  | tennis or badminton |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent racket=Theme in tennis=Location |
| 3 | **hit** | can | rackets | faces |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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