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title: Anyone who sees a sign should speak up: the player, a teammate, a pa… — A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Anyone who sees a sign should speak up: the player, a teammate, a parent, a coach or the referee; telling about a mate's head knock is not snitching. Who acts: Anyone, telling, mate. 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 p
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# A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out, sentence 17

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Anyone who sees a sign should speak up: the player, a teammate, a parent, a coach or the referee; telling about a mate's head knock is not snitching.

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**Who acts:** Anyone, telling, mate · **What happens:** see, speak up, tell, not snitch, knock · **To what, where:** sign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Anyone, telling, mate), 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:17
# text = Anyone who sees a sign should speak up: the player, a teammate, a parent, a coach or the referee; telling about a mate's head knock is not snitching.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	teammate	teammate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	snitching	snitch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **see** | present |  | a sign |  |  |  | the player and a teammate and a parent and a coach or the referee *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus |
| 2 | **speak up** *speech: other* | should | Anyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about a mate's head knock | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about knock=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **snitch** *speech: other* | present · progressive | telling |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **knock** |  | a mate |  |  |  |  |  | nom knock «event intransitive»: poss=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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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