--- title: A cricket ball is very hard, almost like a stone covered in leather,… — Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming · tree and pragmatics description: A cricket ball is very hard, almost like a stone covered in leather, so batters wear a helmet, pads and gloves, and fielders close to the bat wear a helmet or stand back. Who acts: cricket ball, batters, fielders. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cricket ball, batters, fielders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey.lesson:0 # text = A cricket ball is very hard, almost like a stone covered in leather, so batters wear a helmet, pads and gloves, and fielders close to the bat wear a helmet or stand back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cricket cricket NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 almost almost ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 leather leather NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 17 batters batter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:appos 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 fielders fielder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 28 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 31 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 37 back back ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a cricket ball | | | | | like a stone; almost, hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | a stone *not said here* | | | | in leather | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in leather=Theme | | 3 | **wear** | present | batters | a helmet and pads and gloves | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | | 4 | **wear** | present | fielders | a helmet | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | | 5 | **stand back** | infinitive | fielders *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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. 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