A knock to the head in sport: if in doubt, sit them out, sentence 18
Scrum caps and helmets protect against cuts and some bumps but do not prevent concussion.
Who acts: Scrum caps · What happens: protect, not prevent · To what, where: 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 (Scrum caps), 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 | Scrum | scrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caps | compound |
| 2 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 protect | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 helmets | cc |
| 4 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 caps | conj |
| 5 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 cuts | case |
| 7 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 protect | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bumps | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 bumps | det |
| 10 | bumps | bump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cuts | conj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 prevent | cc |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 prevent | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 prevent | advmod |
| 14 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 protect | conj |
| 15 | concussion | concussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prevent | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present | Scrum caps and helmets | against cuts and some bumps | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent against cut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not prevent | present · do-support | Scrum caps and helmets not said here | concussion | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer concussion=Theme |
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:18.
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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