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title: Wrist guards, elbow pads, knee pads and a helmet protect the parts t… — Skating and sports safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Wrist guards, elbow pads, knee pads and a helmet protect the parts that hit the ground in a fall. Who acts: Wrist guards, parts. 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 8

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Wrist guards, elbow pads, knee pads and a helmet protect the parts that hit the ground in a fall.

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**Who acts:** Wrist guards, parts · **What happens:** protect, hit · **To what, where:** parts, ground, fall

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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 (Wrist guards, parts), 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:8
# text = Wrist guards, elbow pads, knee pads and a helmet protect the parts that hit the ground in a fall.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=5:conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | Wrist guards and elbow pads and knee pads and a helmet | the parts |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **hit** | past | the parts | the ground |  | a fall |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ground=Theme in fall=Destination |

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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:8`.

**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, 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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