--- title: Soccer, American football and baseball — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Soccer, American football and baseball», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The word "football" means different games in different places: soccer in the UK, Ireland and most of the world, American football --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Soccer, American football and baseball # Soccer, American football and baseball Lesson 248 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 22 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/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/0/) — The word "football" means different games in different places: soccer in the UK, Ireland and most of the world, American football in the USA and Canada, and often Australian rules or rugby league in Australia. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/1/) — Every sport has rules and safety gear: shin pads in soccer, a helmet and pads in tackle football, and a batting helmet in baseball. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/2/) — The referee's word is final: a yellow card is a warning, a red card sends a player off, and arguing can earn you a card. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/3/) — Some dangers are big: a soccer goal that is not fixed to the ground can fall and crush a child, and a thrown bat can hit people. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/4/) — A boy in London tells his friend in Chicago that he loves football, and the friend imagines helmets and touchdowns, until they work out the boy means soccer. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/5/) — In the UK, Ireland and most of the world, football means soccer. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/6/) — In the USA and Canada, football means American football (Canadian football in Canada). - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/7/) — Shin pads are worn under the socks at practice and matches, because kicks can hurt or break the shin. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/8/) — You accept the referee's decision without arguing; arguing can earn a yellow card. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/9/) — A yellow card is a warning, and a red card means the player is sent off; a second yellow card in the same match also means a red card. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/10/) — An attacker is offside if, when the ball is passed forward to him, he is nearer the goal than the last defender (not counting the goalkeeper) and the ball. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/11/) — When a player is hurt, play stops and the referee and coach help; you can kick the ball out of play. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/12/) — Never climb on or hang from a soccer goal; tell an adult if it wobbles, because loose goals can fall and crush children. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/13/) — In tackle football players wear a helmet, pads and a mouthguard and tackle with the head up, because tackling with the head down can injure the neck. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/14/) — A touchdown is worth six points, followed by a try for an extra point. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/15/) — In baseball and softball the batter wears a helmet and drops the bat after hitting, never throwing it. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/16/) — Players waiting to bat stand behind the fence or in the dugout (the team's low shelter beside the field). - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/17/) — In baseball three strikes is out, and four balls (throws outside the strike zone, the area the batter should swing at) means the batter walks to first base. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/18/) — A boy in Ohio played soccer without shin pads; a hard tackle cracked his shin bone and he was in a cast for six weeks. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/19/) — A high-school football player in Texas kept playing after a big hit to the head because he felt "okay"; a second hit made it much worse, and he was off school for weeks. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/20/) — A concussion (a brain injury from a knock to the head) can happen without being knocked out, and playing on after a head injury can make it much more serious. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/21/) — Shin pads, helmets and mouth guards stop many broken bones and broken teeth. - ← previous: [Running games and the playground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/247-running-games-and-playground/) - next →: [Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)