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title: Helmets and scrum caps help with cuts and some bumps, but no headgea… — A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Helmets and scrum caps help with cuts and some bumps, but no headgear can stop the brain moving inside the skull, so the same rule applies to everyone. Who acts: Helmets, headgear, same rule. A sentence of the lesson «A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out» of the medicine course of
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# A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out, sentence 4

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Helmets and scrum caps help with cuts and some bumps, but no headgear can stop the brain moving inside the skull, so the same rule applies to everyone.

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**Who acts:** Helmets, headgear, same rule · **What happens:** help, stop, move, apply · **To what, where:** brain, skull

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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 (Helmets, headgear, same rule), 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:4
# text = Helmets and scrum caps help with cuts and some bumps, but no headgear can stop the brain moving inside the skull, so the same rule applies to everyone.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	scrum	scrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	headgear	headgear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl
20	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	applies	apply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **help** | present | Helmets and scrum caps |  |  |  |  | with cuts and some bumps | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cut=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | can | no headgear | the brain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | gerund | no headgear *not said here* |  |  | the skull |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme inside skull=Trajectory |
| 4 | **apply** | present | the same rule |  |  |  |  | to everyone | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:047-a-knock-to-the-head-in-sport-if-in-doubt-sit-them-out.lesson:4`.

**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, 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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