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title: You accept the referee's decision without arguing; arguing can earn… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: You accept the referee's decision without arguing; arguing can earn a yellow card. Who acts: You, arguing, referee. 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 8

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You accept the referee's decision without arguing; arguing can earn a yellow card.

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**Who acts:** You, arguing, referee · **What happens:** accept, argue, earn, decide · **To what, where:** decision, yellow card

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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 (You, arguing, 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:8
# text = You accept the referee's decision without arguing; arguing can earn a yellow 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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	accept	accept	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	referee	referee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	earn	earn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **accept** | present | You | the referee's decision |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decision=Theme |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **earn** | can | arguing | a yellow card |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 5 | **decide** |  | the referee |  |  |  |  |  | nom decision «act 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:8`.

**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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