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title: In the UK there is no return to competitive sport for at least 21 da… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK there is no return to competitive sport for at least 21 days after a concussion, and only step by step: the brain heals more slowly than a bruise. Who acts: return, brain, step. A sentence of the lesson «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» of the medicine course of Mova's pr
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# Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football, sentence 6

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In the UK there is no return to competitive sport for at least 21 days after a concussion, and only step by step: the brain heals more slowly than a bruise.

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**Who acts:** return, brain, step · **What happens:** be, heal, step · **To what, where:** step, UK

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» 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 (return, brain, step), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:045-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football.lesson:6
# text = In the UK there is no return to competitive sport for at least 21 days after a concussion, and only step by step: the brain heals more slowly than a bruise.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 045-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	competitive	competitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nmod	_	_
14	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	concussion	concussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	heals	heal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bruise	bruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **be** | present | no return to competitive sport | step by step |  | the UK; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in uk=Location |
| 2 | **heal** | present | the brain |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **step** |  | step |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: by=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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**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:medicine:045-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football.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): no change. **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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