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title: In cricket the bowler must bowl, not throw: the elbow must not bend… — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports · tree and pragmatics
description: In cricket the bowler must bowl, not throw: the elbow must not bend and straighten as the ball is let go. Who acts: bowler, elbow, ball. A sentence of the lesson «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports, sentence 13

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In cricket the bowler must bowl, not throw: the elbow must not bend and straighten as the ball is let go.

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**Who acts:** bowler, elbow, ball · **What happens:** bowl, not throw, not bend, straighten, let, go · **To what, where:** cricket, 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 (bowler, elbow, ball), 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:13
# text = In cricket the bowler must bowl, not throw: the elbow must not bend and straighten as the ball is let go.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bowler	bowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bowl	bowl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	straighten	straighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **bowl** | must | the bowler |  |  | cricket |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cricket=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **throw** | infinitive | the bowler *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **bend** | must | the elbow |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **straighten** | infinitive | the elbow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **let** | present · passive |  | the ball |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | the ball *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules.lesson:13`.

**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/).

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