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title: A girl in Minnesota went roller skating without wrist guards, fell b… — Skating and sports safety · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Minnesota went roller skating without wrist guards, fell backwards onto her hands and broke both wrists. Who acts: girl. 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 5

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A girl in Minnesota went roller skating without wrist guards, fell backwards onto her hands and broke both wrists.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** go, fall, break · **To what, where:** roller skating, hands, wrists

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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 (girl), 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:5
# text = A girl in Minnesota went roller skating without wrist guards, fell backwards onto her hands and broke both wrists.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Minnesota	Minnesota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	roller	roller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	skating	skating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	backwards	backward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	wrists	wrist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **go** | past | a girl in Minnesota | roller skating |  |  |  | without wrist guards | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skating=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | a girl in Minnesota *not said here* |  |  | girl's hands |  | backward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto hand=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **break** | past | a girl in Minnesota *not said here* | both wrists |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient |

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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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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