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title: A boy in Ohio played soccer without shin pads; a hard tackle cracked… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: boy, hard tackle. 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 pragma
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# Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 18

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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.

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**Who acts:** boy, hard tackle · **What happens:** play, crack, be · **To what, where:** soccer, shin bone, cast

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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 (boy, hard tackle), 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:18
# text = 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.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	shin	shin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tackle	tackle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	shin	shin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **play** | past | a boy in Ohio | soccer |  |  |  | without shin pads | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soccer=Theme |
| 2 | **crack** | past | a hard tackle | tackle's shin bone |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bone=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | boy |  |  | a cast | week |  | 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:18`.

**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.

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

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