--- title: In cricket the bowler keeps the arm straight; bending and straighten… — Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming · tree and pragmatics description: In cricket the bowler keeps the arm straight; bending and straightening it to throw is against the rules, and the umpire (the cricket referee) will not allow it. Who acts: bowler, umpire. 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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 (bowler, umpire), 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:7 # text = In cricket the bowler keeps the arm straight; bending and straightening it to throw is against the rules, and the umpire (the cricket referee) will not allow it. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 cricket cricket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bowler bowler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 bending bend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 straightening straighten VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 umpire umpire NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 cricket cricket NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 referee referee NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | the bowler | the arm | | cricket | | straight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Theme in cricket=Location | | 2 | **bend** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **straighten** | gerund | | arm | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **throw** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | against the rules | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **allow** | future | the umpire | arm | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | 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:7`. **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. **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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/6/) - next →: [Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/)