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title: «Football» means soccer in the UK, Ireland and most of the world, bu… — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports · tree and pragmatics
description: «Football» means soccer in the UK, Ireland and most of the world, but American football in the USA and Canada, and often Australian rules or rugby league in Australia. Who acts: Football. A sentence of the lesson «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» of the everyday course of Mova's p
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# Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports, sentence 10

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«Football» means soccer in the UK, Ireland and most of the world, but American football in the USA and Canada, and often Australian rules or rugby league in Australia.

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**Who acts:** Football · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** soccer

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» 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 (Football), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.lesson:10
# text = «Football» means soccer in the UK, Ireland and most of the world, but American football in the USA and Canada, and often Australian rules or rugby league in Australia.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Football	football	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod
28	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mean** | present | Football | soccer |  |  |  | in the UK and Ireland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot soccer=Theme in uk=Attribute |

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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:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.lesson:10`.

**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, 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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