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title: Your brain floats inside your skull like a jelly in a lunchbox; a ha… — A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your brain floats inside your skull like a jelly in a lunchbox; a hard jolt, from a head clash, a fall or even a big tackle to the body, can shake it against the inside, and that is concussion. Who acts: brain, hard jolt, that. A sentence of the lesson «A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit
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# A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out, sentence 0

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Your brain floats inside your skull like a jelly in a lunchbox; a hard jolt, from a head clash, a fall or even a big tackle to the body, can shake it against the inside, and that is concussion.

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**Who acts:** brain, hard jolt, that · **What happens:** float, shake, be · **To what, where:** skull, brain, inside, concussion

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out» 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 (brain, hard jolt, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:047-a-knock-to-the-head-in-sport-if-in-doubt-sit-them-out.lesson:0
# text = Your brain floats inside your skull like a jelly in a lunchbox; a hard jolt, from a head clash, a fall or even a big tackle to the body, can shake it against the inside, and that is concussion.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 047-a-knock-to-the-head-in-sport-if-in-doubt-sit-them-out.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lunchbox	lunchbox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	jolt	jolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	clash	clash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tackle	tackle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	against	against	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	concussion	concussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35: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 | **float** | present | Your brain |  |  | your skull |  | like a jelly in a lunchbox | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside skull=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shake** | can | a hard jolt from a head clash or a fall and a big tackle to the body | brain |  | the inside |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme against inside=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | concussion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:047-a-knock-to-the-head-in-sport-if-in-doubt-sit-them-out.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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