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title: A mouthguard protects the teeth in sports like hockey, rugby and bas… — Skating and sports safety · tree and pragmatics
description: A mouthguard protects the teeth in sports like hockey, rugby and basketball. Who acts: mouthguard. A sentence of the lesson «Skating and sports safety» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Skating and sports safety, sentence 13

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A mouthguard protects the teeth in sports like hockey, rugby and basketball.

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**Who acts:** mouthguard · **What happens:** protect · **To what, where:** teeth, sports

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Skating and sports safety» 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 (mouthguard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:006-skating-and-sports-safety.lesson:13
# text = A mouthguard protects the teeth in sports like hockey, rugby and basketball.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 006-skating-and-sports-safety.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mouthguard	mouthguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hockey	hockey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	basketball	basketball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **protect** | present | a mouthguard | the teeth |  | sports like hockey and rugby and basketball |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary |

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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:006-skating-and-sports-safety.lesson:13`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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