--- title: Trampolines, playgrounds and skate parks — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Trampolines, playgrounds and skate parks», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Ruby's four cousins pile onto the garden trampoline at once, «Get on, all of yous, it's way more craic!» («craic» is Irish for f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / Trampolines, playgrounds and skate parks # Trampolines, playgrounds and skate parks Lesson 73 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/0/) — Ruby's four cousins pile onto the garden trampoline at once, «Get on, all of yous, it's way more craic!» («craic» is Irish for fun), and little Ellie keeps getting flung sideways: when several people bounce, one lands while the mat flies up, and the smallest gets thrown hardest. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/1/) — A trampoline throws you up, and you come down from wherever it threw you: onto the frame, the fence, the patio, or onto your own neck if a flip goes wrong, and a broken neck can mean never walking again. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/2/) — Playgrounds have quiet rules too: slides one at a time and feet first, walk wide around moving swings, touch a metal slide on a hot day before you sit, and take your bike helmet off on the climbing frame, because it can catch in the bars and the strap can press on the throat. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/3/) — Skate parks run on a queue nobody writes down: one rider in the bowl at a time, look before you drop in, and wear a helmet and wrist guards, because in a fall your hands shoot out by reflex and wrists take the hit. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/6/) — When several people bounce, the smallest child is usually thrown hardest and hurt most. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/7/) — Flips and somersaults on a trampoline can cause neck injuries; they should only be learned with a trained coach. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/8/) — A trampoline should have a safety net and frame pads, with space around it on soft ground, away from fences and patios. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/9/) — Trampoline parks have one person per bed and marshals to stop collisions. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/10/) — Slides are made for one person at a time, feet first; head-first, your face and neck reach the ground first. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/11/) — Metal and dark surfaces in strong sun can get far hotter than the air and burn bare skin. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/12/) — A moving swing is heavy and fast at a child's head height and can knock you out or break teeth, so walk wide around swings. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/13/) — Bike helmets should come off on play equipment because they can catch between bars and the strap can press on the throat. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/14/) — At skate parks one rider goes in the bowl at a time, and you look before you drop in. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/15/) — Putting your hands out when you fall is a reflex, so broken wrists are among the most common skate park injuries; everyone falls sometimes, even the best riders, and wrist guards and a helmet help. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/16/) — A broken arm takes about six weeks to heal. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/17/) — Showing off for a camera makes people take bigger risks, not make better landings. - ← previous: [Bike helmets and roads](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/72-bike-helmets-and-roads/) - next →: [Ice on ponds and cold water in winter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/74-ice-on-ponds-and-cold-water-in-winter/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)