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title: Headache or feeling sick after a knock to the head can mean concussi… — Ill on match day: play or stay home? · tree and pragmatics
description: Headache or feeling sick after a knock to the head can mean concussion, and the UK rule is «if in doubt, sit them out». Who acts: Headache, UK rule. A sentence of the lesson «Ill on match day: play or stay home?» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Ill on match day: play or stay home?, sentence 16

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Headache or feeling sick after a knock to the head can mean concussion, and the UK rule is «if in doubt, sit them out».

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**Who acts:** Headache, UK rule · **What happens:** feel, mean, be · **To what, where:** concussion, doubt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ill on match day: play or stay home?» 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 (Headache, UK rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:060-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home.lesson:16
# text = Headache or feeling sick after a knock to the head can mean concussion, and the UK rule is «if in doubt, sit them out».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 060-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	concussion	concussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:outer	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund | Headache *not said here* |  |  |  | after a knock to the head | sick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | can | Headache | concussion |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concussion=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the UK rule |  |  | doubt |  | sit *property* | tree rules |

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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): R6-punct-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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