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title: Broken wrists are the most common injury for skaters, and wrist guar… — Skating and sports safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Broken wrists are the most common injury for skaters, and wrist guards help prevent them. Who acts: Broken wrists, wrist guards. 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 18

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Broken wrists are the most common injury for skaters, and wrist guards help prevent them.

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**Who acts:** Broken wrists, wrist guards · **What happens:** be, help, prevent · **To what, where:** common injury, guards

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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 (Broken wrists, wrist guards), 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:18
# text = Broken wrists are the most common injury for skaters, and wrist guards help prevent them.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wrists	wrist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	skaters	skater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
15	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | Broken wrists | the common injury |  |  |  | for skaters | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | wrist guards |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **prevent** | infinitive | wrist guards *not said here* | guards *= guard* |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=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:006-skating-and-sports-safety.lesson:18`.

**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): 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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