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title: Players waiting to bat stand behind the fence or in the dugout (the… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: Players waiting to bat stand behind the fence or in the dugout (the team's low shelter beside the field). Who acts: Players. 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 16

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Players waiting to bat stand behind the fence or in the dugout (the team's low shelter beside the field).

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**Who acts:** Players · **What happens:** wait, bat, stand · **To what, where:** fence

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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), 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:16
# text = Players waiting to bat stand behind the fence or in the dugout (the team's low shelter beside the field).
# 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	Players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	bat	bat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dugout	dugout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
19	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **wait** | gerund | Players *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bat** | to-infinitive | Players *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | present | Players |  |  | the fence or the dugout |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind fence=Location |

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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:16`.

**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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