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title: A boy in Dublin got a hard knock to the head in a rugby match and ke… — Skating and sports safety · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Skating and sports safety» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Skating and sports safety, sentence 6

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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.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** get, keep, play, hurt, stop · **To what, where:** hard knock, rugby match, second knock

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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 (boy), 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:6
# text = 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.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
27	much	much	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
29	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
31	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
36	after	after	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **get** | past | a boy in Dublin | a hard knock |  | a rugby match |  | to the head | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus |
| 2 | **keep** | past | a boy in Dublin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | a boy in Dublin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | past | boy | a second knock |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus |
| 5 | **hurt** | past · passive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 6 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | boy |  |  |  | after the first |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:6`.

**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): R8-pos-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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