--- title: Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: But if your toe touches the three-point line, it's only a 2. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and… # Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating Lesson 44 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/1/) — But if your toe touches the three-point line, it's only a 2. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/2/) — Tennis counts in a strange old way, love, 15, 30, 40, game, and at 40-all (deuce) you need two points in a row, so close games can go on and on. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/3/) — Skaters fall every session, even the good ones, so the gear goes on every time: a helmet, wrist guards, knee and elbow pads. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/4/) — Crouch low, and roll when you fall instead of slamming down a stiff arm. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/5/) — On ice, bend your knees and lean a little forward, and if you go down keep your hands close so no blade passes over your fingers. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/6/) — Skate at a rink: never step onto a frozen pond or lake. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/7/) — In basketball a shot from inside the arc scores 2, from beyond the arc 3, and a free throw 1; a foot touching the three-point line makes it a 2. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/8/) — A full-size hoop is 3.05 m (10 feet) high; mini-basketball for younger children uses a lower hoop of about 2.60 m, and a good shot pushes up from the legs. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/9/) — You can't run while holding the ball (travelling), and once you stop dribbling you can't start again (double dribble); the ball goes to the other team. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/10/) — Basketball is played 5 a side, so 10 players are on the court. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/11/) — A jammed finger must never be pulled; cool it with ice wrapped in a cloth for up to about 20 minutes, show an adult, and a bent or very painful finger needs a doctor. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/12/) — Tennis points go 0 (love), 15, 30, 40, game; at 40-40 (deuce) you need two points in a row, and a set is usually won by the first to 6 games with 2 clear. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/13/) — A good serve is a chain from the legs through the hips and body to the arm; too many hard serves day after day can overload the shoulder. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/14/) — Wrist injuries are among the most common in skateboarding; a helmet, wrist guards, and knee and elbow pads cut the damage. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/15/) — Britain's Sky Brown won an Olympic bronze medal in skateboarding at 13, in Tokyo. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/16/) — Falling from a crouch is a shorter drop than from standing; skaters learn to roll onto the shoulder or slide on knee pads instead of putting a stiff arm out. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/18/) — Ice on ponds can be thin in places, and falling through means cold shock; RoSPA advises never going onto frozen ponds or lakes, and if someone falls in, stay off the ice and call 999. - ← previous: [Running, gymnastics and martial arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/43-running-gymnastics-and-martial-arts/) - next →: [Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)