--- title: Skating and sports safety — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Skating and sports safety», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: On skates or a skateboard the most common injury is a broken wrist, because people throw out a hand when they fall; wrist guards have a hard pl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/) [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/) / Skating and sports safety # Skating and sports safety Lesson 6 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 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/6-skating-and-sports-safety/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/0/) — On skates or a skateboard the most common injury is a broken wrist, because people throw out a hand when they fall; wrist guards have a hard plate that slides along the ground instead of the bones taking the blow. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/1/) — So wear the full set: a helmet, wrist guards, elbow pads and knee pads, and learn to fall forward onto your pads. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/2/) — Before sport, warm up with a few minutes of gentle running and moving: your muscles get warmer, more blood flows to them and they stretch and react better, so they are less likely to be strained. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/3/) — Drink water, use the right gear for each sport (a mouthguard, shin pads, goggles), and if your head gets a knock, stop and tell an adult: «when in doubt, sit it out». - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/4/) — A girl in Calgary heading for the ice rink puts on her helmet and gloves, warms up her legs, and skates only on ice the rink staff say is open. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/5/) — A girl in Minnesota went roller skating without wrist guards, fell backwards onto her hands and broke both wrists. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/6/) — A boy in Dublin got a hard knock to the head in a rugby match and kept playing; he got a second knock and was much more badly hurt than if he had stopped after the first. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/7/) — Wrist injuries are among the most common injuries in skating and skateboarding. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/8/) — Wrist guards, elbow pads, knee pads and a helmet protect the parts that hit the ground in a fall. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/9/) — A warm-up makes muscles warmer and readier to work, so they are less likely to be strained. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/10/) — A warm-up is a few minutes of gentle movement before harder exercise. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/11/) — A cool-down of slow movement after exercise helps the body calm down gradually. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/12/) — You lose water when you sweat, so you should drink during and after sport, even before you feel thirsty. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/13/) — A mouthguard protects the teeth in sports like hockey, rugby and basketball. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/14/) — Shin pads protect the shins in football. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/15/) — Anyone who gets a knock to the head in sport should stop playing and tell an adult. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/16/) — A concussion is a hurt to the brain caused by a knock to the head; its signs include headache, dizziness, feeling sick and confusion. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/17/) — Pain is a signal that something may be hurt, so you should not keep playing through sharp pain. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/18/) — Broken wrists are the most common injury for skaters, and wrist guards help prevent them. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/6-skating-and-sports-safety/19/) — Anyone who gets a knock to the head in sport should stop playing and be checked, even if they feel fine. - ← previous: [Riding a bike or a scooter safely](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/) - next →: [Swimming basics and water confidence](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/7-swimming-and-water/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)