--- title: A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fie… — Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming · tree and pragmatics description: A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fielders and goalies wear helmets and pads. Who acts: cricket ball, close 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, close 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:20 # text = A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fielders and goalies wear helmets and pads. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 cricket cricket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 hockey hockey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 8 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 14 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fielders fielder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 goalies goalie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 19 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a cricket ball | | | | | enough, hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | to-infinitive | a cricket ball *not said here* | bones | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient | | 3 | **wear** | present | close fielders and goalies | helmets and pads | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | 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:20`. **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/). - ← previous: [Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/19/) - next →: [Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/)