A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out, sentence 14
A second knock while the brain is still healing can be much more serious than the first.
Who acts: brain, second knock · What happens: heal, be · To what, where: second knock
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, second knock), 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 knock | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 knock | amod |
| 3 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 serious | nsubj |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 healing | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brain | det |
| 6 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 healing | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 healing | aux |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 healing | advmod |
| 9 | healing | heal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 knock | acl |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 serious | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 serious | cop |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 serious | advmod |
| 14 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 first | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 first | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 serious | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 serious | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heal | present · progressive | the brain | a second knock not said here | still | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knock=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | can | a second knock | than the first; serious property | 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:14.
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): no change. 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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