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title: Each sport has rules that also keep people safe: in rugby you pass o… — Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming · tree and pragmatics
description: Each sport has rules that also keep people safe: in rugby you pass only backwards or sideways and tackle below the shoulders; in ice hockey the stick stays below the shoulders. Who acts: sport, rules, you, stick. A sentence of the lesson «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» of the every
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# Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming, sentence 1

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Each sport has rules that also keep people safe: in rugby you pass only backwards or sideways and tackle below the shoulders; in ice hockey the stick stays below the shoulders.

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**Who acts:** sport, rules, you, stick · **What happens:** have, keep, pass, tackle, stay · **To what, where:** rules, people, rugby, shoulders, ice hockey

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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 (sport, rules, you, stick), 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:1
# text = Each sport has rules that also keep people safe: in rugby you pass only backwards or sideways and tackle below the shoulders; in ice hockey the stick stays below the shoulders.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	backwards	backward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tackle	tackle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	below	below	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	hockey	hockey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
31	below	below	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | each sport | rules |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | present | rules | people |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | present | you |  |  | rugby |  | backward *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in rugby=Location |
| 4 | **tackle** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | the shoulders |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stay** | present | the stick |  |  | ice hockey |  | below the shoulders | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hockey=Location |

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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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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