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title: In tackle football players wear a helmet, pads and a mouthguard and… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: players, tackling. A sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 13

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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.

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**Who acts:** players, tackling · **What happens:** wear, tackle up, tackle, injure · **To what, where:** helmet, tackle football, neck

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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 (players, tackling), 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:13
# text = 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.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	tackle	tackle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mouthguard	mouthguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tackle	tackle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	tackling	tackle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **wear** | present | players | a helmet and pads and a mouthguard |  | tackle football |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |
| 2 | **tackle up** | present | players *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the head | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with head=Instrument |
| 3 | **tackle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the head; down *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with head=Instrument |
| 4 | **injure** | can | tackling | the neck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.lesson:13`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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