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title: UK grassroots sport guidance says «if in doubt, sit them out»: anyon… — A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit t… · tree and pragmatics
description: UK grassroots sport guidance says «if in doubt, sit them out»: anyone with a suspected concussion must stop playing and must not go back on that same day. Who acts: UK sport guidance, anyone. 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 7

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UK grassroots sport guidance says «if in doubt, sit them out»: anyone with a suspected concussion must stop playing and must not go back on that same day.

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**Who acts:** UK sport guidance, anyone · **What happens:** say, sit out, suspect, stop, play, not go back · **To what, where:** signs, doubt · **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 (UK sport guidance, anyone), 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:7
# text = UK grassroots sport guidance says «if in doubt, sit them out»: anyone with a suspected concussion must stop playing and must not go back on that same day.
# 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 ×2
1	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	grassroots	grassroot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound
3	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	concussion	concussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
23	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | UK sport guidance |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sit out** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive |  | signs *= sign* |  | doubt |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme in doubt=Location |
| 3 | **suspect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stop** | must | anyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **play** | gerund | anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **go back** | must | anyone *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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): R5-strong ×2. **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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