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title: The referee's word is final: a yellow card is a warning, a red card… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: The referee's word is final: a yellow card is a warning, a red card sends a player off, and arguing can earn you a card. Who acts: word, yellow card, red card, referee. A sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 2

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The referee's word is final: a yellow card is a warning, a red card sends a player off, and arguing can earn you a card.

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**Who acts:** word, yellow card, red card, referee · **What happens:** be, send off, argue, earn, word · **To what, where:** warning, player, card, you

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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 (word, yellow card, red card, referee), 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:2
# text = The referee's word is final: a yellow card is a warning, a red card sends a player off, and arguing can earn you a card.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | the referee's word |  |  |  |  | final *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a yellow card | a warning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send off** | present | a red card | a player |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Theme |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **earn** | can |  | a card | you |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary card=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  | the referee |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:2`.

**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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