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title: In soccer an attacker is offside if, when a teammate passes the ball… — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports · tree and pragmatics
description: In soccer an attacker is offside if, when a teammate passes the ball forward, he is nearer the other goal than the ball and the second-last defender (the goalkeeper usually counts as one). Who acts: attacker, teammate, goalkeeper. A sentence of the lesson «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of
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# Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports, sentence 11

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In soccer an attacker is offside if, when a teammate passes the ball forward, he is nearer the other goal than the ball and the second-last defender (the goalkeeper usually counts as one).

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**Who acts:** attacker, teammate, goalkeeper · **What happens:** be, pass, count · **To what, where:** soccer, ball

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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 (attacker, teammate, goalkeeper), 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:11
# text = In soccer an attacker is offside if, when a teammate passes the ball forward, he is nearer the other goal than the ball and the second-last defender (the goalkeeper usually counts as one).
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	attacker	attacker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	offside	offside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	teammate	teammate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	defender	defender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	goalkeeper	goalkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:acl:relcl
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obl	_	_
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a attacker |  |  | soccer |  | offside *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a teammate | the ball |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | teammate |  |  |  |  | than the ball and the second last defender; near *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **count** | present | the goalkeeper |  |  |  |  | as one; usually *property* | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as one=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:11`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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