Music practice and ball games, sentence 22

A hard ball moves fast enough to break a nose, a tooth or a cheekbone, which is why helmets, face guards and mouth guards are worn.

Who acts: hard ball · What happens: move, break, be, worn · To what, where: nose, helmets

This is a sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday 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 (hard ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ball	det
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ball	amod
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moves	nsubj
4	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 break	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 moves	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 break	mark
8	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 moves	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nose	det
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tooth	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tooth	det
13	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nose	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 cheekbone	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cheekbone	det
16	cheekbone	cheekbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nose	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 worn	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 why	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 why	cop
20	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 worn	advmod
21	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 worn	nsubj:pass
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 guards	punct
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 guards	compound
24	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 helmets	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 guards	cc
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 guards	compound
27	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 helmets	conj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 worn	aux:pass
29	worn	worn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 moves	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 moves	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	present	a hard ball		enough property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	break	to-infinitive	a hard ball not said here	a nose and a tooth or a cheekbone	fast property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=Patient
3	is	present			why property	tree rules
4	worn	present · passive		helmets and face guards and mouth guards		tree rules

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.

Licence: CC 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:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:22.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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