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title: Scrum caps and helmets protect against cuts and some bumps but do no… — A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scrum caps and helmets protect against cuts and some bumps but do not prevent concussion. Who acts: Scrum caps. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out, sentence 18

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Scrum caps and helmets protect against cuts and some bumps but do not prevent concussion.

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**Who acts:** Scrum caps · **What happens:** protect, not prevent · **To what, where:** 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 (Scrum caps), 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:18
# text = Scrum caps and helmets protect against cuts and some bumps but do not prevent 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): no change
1	Scrum	scrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	bumps	bump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	concussion	concussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **protect** | present | Scrum caps and helmets |  |  |  |  | against cuts and some bumps | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent against cut=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **prevent** | present · do-support | Scrum caps and helmets *not said here* | concussion |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer concussion=Theme |

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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:18`.

**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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