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title: An attacker is offside if, when the ball is passed forward to him, h… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: attacker, card. A sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with
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# Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 10

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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.

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**Who acts:** attacker, card · **What happens:** be, pass, not count · **To what, where:** ball, card, goalkeeper

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» 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 (attacker, card), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.lesson:10
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	attacker	attacker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	offside	offside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
12	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	defender	defender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	appos	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	goalkeeper	goalkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a attacker |  |  |  |  | offside *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | the ball | card |  |  | forward *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | card |  |  |  |  | than the last defender and the ball; the goal *obl*; near *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **count** | gerund |  | the goalkeeper |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goalkeeper=Theme |

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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.

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**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): 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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