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title: Fielders close to the batter wear a helmet or stand further back, be… — Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming · tree and pragmatics
description: Fielders close to the batter wear a helmet or stand further back, because hard shots hit them. Who acts: Fielders, hard shots. A sentence of the lesson «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming, sentence 6

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Fielders close to the batter wear a helmet or stand further back, because hard shots hit them.

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**Who acts:** Fielders, hard shots · **What happens:** wear, stand, hit · **To what, where:** helmet

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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 (Fielders, hard shots), 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:6
# text = Fielders close to the batter wear a helmet or stand further back, because hard shots hit them.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fielders	fielder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	batter	batter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	further	further	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shots	shot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **wear** | present | Fielders | a helmet |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive | Fielders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hit** | past | hard shots | helmet |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |

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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:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey.lesson:6`.

**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): R8-pos-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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