A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out, sentence 0
Your brain floats inside your skull like a jelly in a lunchbox; a hard jolt, from a head clash, a fall or even a big tackle to the body, can shake it against the inside, and that is concussion.
Who acts: brain, hard jolt, that · What happens: float, shake, be · To what, where: skull, brain, inside, concussion
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 (brain, hard jolt, that), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brain | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floats | nsubj |
| 3 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 shake | parataxis |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 6 skull | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 skull | nmod:poss |
| 6 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floats | obl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 jelly | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 jelly | det |
| 9 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floats | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 lunchbox | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lunchbox | det |
| 12 | lunchbox | lunchbox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jelly | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 jolt | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 jolt | det |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 jolt | amod |
| 16 | jolt | jolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shake | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 clash | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 clash | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 clash | det |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clash | compound |
| 21 | clash | clash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jolt | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fall | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fall | det |
| 24 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clash | conj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 fall | cc |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 tackle | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tackle | det |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tackle | amod |
| 29 | tackle | tackle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clash | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 body | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 body | det |
| 32 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tackle | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jolt | punct |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 shake | aux |
| 35 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 shake | obj |
| 37 | against | against | ADP | _ | 39 inside | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 inside | det |
| 39 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shake | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 concussion | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 concussion | cc |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 concussion | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 concussion | cop |
| 44 | concussion | concussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shake | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 floats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | Your brain | your skull | like a jelly in a lunchbox | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside skull=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shake | can | a hard jolt from a head clash or a fall and a big tackle to the body | brain | the inside | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme against inside=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is a | present | that | concussion | 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:medicine:047-a-knock-to-the-head-in-sport-if-in-doubt-sit-them-out.lesson:0.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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