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title: Martial arts train balance, fast reactions and control; children's s… — Running, gymnastics and martial arts · tree and pragmatics
description: Martial arts train balance, fast reactions and control; children's sparring stops before contact, and the first rule is to avoid fights; a club can throw out a pupil who uses it to fight outside. Who acts: Martial arts, sparring, first rule, club. A sentence of the lesson «Running, gymnastics and ma
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# Running, gymnastics and martial arts, sentence 15

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Martial arts train balance, fast reactions and control; children's sparring stops before contact, and the first rule is to avoid fights; a club can throw out a pupil who uses it to fight outside.

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**Who acts:** Martial arts, sparring, first rule, club, pupil · **What happens:** train, stop, be, throw out, use, fight · **To what, where:** balance, pupil

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Running, gymnastics and martial arts» of the medicine 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 (Martial arts, sparring, first rule, club), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:043-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts.lesson:15
# text = Martial arts train balance, fast reactions and control; children's sparring stops before contact, and the first rule is to avoid fights; a club can throw out a pupil who uses it to fight outside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 043-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Martial	martial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	train	train	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
6	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	reactions	reaction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	sparring	spar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
25	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
39	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	.	.	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 | **train** | present | Martial arts | balance and fast reactions and control |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present | children's sparring |  |  |  | before contact |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | the first rule |  |  |  |  | avoid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw out** | can | a club | a pupil |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Theme |
| 5 | **use** | present | a pupil | pupil |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **fight** | to-infinitive | a pupil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.

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