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title: A small fast ball like a squash ball can hit the eye itself, everyda… — Posture and eyes for sporty kids · tree and pragmatics
description: A small fast ball like a squash ball can hit the eye itself, everyday glasses can snap and cut, snow throws sunlight back up into your eyes, and any change in sight after a hit means stop, tell an adult and go to A&E the same day. Who acts: small fast ball, everyday glasses, snow, change. A sentence
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# Posture and eyes for sporty kids, sentence 3

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A small fast ball like a squash ball can hit the eye itself, everyday glasses can snap and cut, snow throws sunlight back up into your eyes, and any change in sight after a hit means stop, tell an adult and go to A&E the same day.

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**Who acts:** small fast ball, everyday glasses, snow, change · **What happens:** hit, snap, cut, throw, means, stop · **To what, where:** eye, sunlight, adult, A · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Posture and eyes for sporty kids» 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 (small fast ball, everyday glasses, snow, change), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.lesson:3
# text = A small fast ball like a squash ball can hit the eye itself, everyday glasses can snap and cut, snow throws sunlight back up into your eyes, and any change in sight after a hit means stop, tell an adult and go to A&E the same day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 058-posture-and-eyes-for-sporty-kids.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, R6-punct-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	squash	squash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	up	up	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	after	after	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:obl
39	means	means	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
40	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
42	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	A	A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
49	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl:unmarked	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **hit** | can | a small fast ball like a squash ball | the eye |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient itself=Result |
| 2 | **snap** | can | everyday glasses |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cut** | infinitive | everyday glasses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **throw** | present | snow | sunlight |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme |
| 5 | **means** | present | any change in sight after a hit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stop** | infinitive | any change in sight after a hit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | snow *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 8 | **go** | infinitive | snow *not said here* |  |  | A & E | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to a=Initial\_Location |

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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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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