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title: A yellow card is a warning, and a red card means the player is sent… — Soccer, American football and baseball · tree and pragmatics
description: A yellow card is a warning, and a red card means the player is sent off; a second yellow card in the same match also means a red card. Who acts: yellow card, red card, second yellow card. A sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the everyday course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 9

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A yellow card is a warning, and a red card means the player is sent off; a second yellow card in the same match also means a red card.

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**Who acts:** yellow card, red card, second yellow card · **What happens:** be, mean, send off · **To what, where:** warning, player, red card · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (yellow card, red card, second yellow card), 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:9
# text = A yellow card is a warning, and a red card means the player is sent off; a second yellow card in the same match also means a red 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
21	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 a** | present | a yellow card | a warning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | a red card |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **send off** | present · passive |  | the player |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a second yellow card in the same match | a red card |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Topic |

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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:9`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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