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title: Some dangers are big: a soccer goal that is not fixed to the ground… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: Some dangers are big: a soccer goal that is not fixed to the ground can fall and crush a child, and a thrown bat can hit people. Who acts: dangers, soccer goal, thrown bat. A sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 3

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Some dangers are big: a soccer goal that is not fixed to the ground can fall and crush a child, and a thrown bat can hit people.

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**Who acts:** dangers, soccer goal, thrown bat · **What happens:** be, not fix, fall, crush, throw, hit · **To what, where:** soccer goal, child, people

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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 (dangers, soccer goal, thrown bat), 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:3
# text = Some dangers are big: a soccer goal that is not fixed to the ground can fall and crush a child, and a thrown bat can hit people.
# 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some dangers |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fix** | present · passive |  | a soccer goal |  |  |  | to the ground | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to ground=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | can | a soccer goal |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **crush** | infinitive | a soccer goal *not said here* | a child |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 5 | **throw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **hit** | can | a thrown bat | people |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Co-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:3`.

**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. **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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