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title: In the USA and Canada, football means American football (Canadian fo… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: In the USA and Canada, football means American football (Canadian football in Canada). Who acts: football. 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 6

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In the USA and Canada, football means American football (Canadian football in Canada).

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**Who acts:** football · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** American football

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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 (football), 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:6
# text = In the USA and Canada, football means American football (Canadian football in Canada).
# 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	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **mean** | present | football | American football |  |  |  | in the USA and Canada | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot football=Theme in usa=Attribute |

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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:6`.

**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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