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title: In baseball and softball the batter wears a helmet and drops the bat… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: In baseball and softball the batter wears a helmet and drops the bat after hitting, never throwing it. Who acts: batter. A sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 15

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In baseball and softball the batter wears a helmet and drops the bat after hitting, never throwing it.

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**Who acts:** batter · **What happens:** wear, drop, hit, not throw · **To what, where:** helmet, baseball, bat

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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 (batter), 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:15
# text = In baseball and softball the batter wears a helmet and drops the bat after hitting, never throwing it.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	baseball	baseball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	softball	softball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	batter	batter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | the batter | a helmet |  | baseball and softball |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | present | the batter *not said here* | the bat |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Theme |
| 3 | **hit** | gerund | the batter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **throw** | gerund | the batter *not said here* | bat |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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:15`.

**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.

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

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