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title: Lying in a dark room for a week is not the advice; after a day or tw… — A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lying in a dark room for a week is not the advice; after a day or two, gentle activity is part of getting better. Who acts: Lying, gentle activity, part. 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 with its depend
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# A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out, sentence 12

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Lying in a dark room for a week is not the advice; after a day or two, gentle activity is part of getting better.

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**Who acts:** Lying, gentle activity, part · **What happens:** lie, not be, be, get · **To what, where:** dark room, advice, part

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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 (Lying, gentle activity, part), 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:12
# text = Lying in a dark room for a week is not the advice; after a day or two, gentle activity is part of getting better.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
25	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod
26	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | a dark room | week |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Lying | the advice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | gentle activity | part |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | part *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:12`.

**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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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