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title: The Scottish girl means soccer, and the American girl means American… — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports · tree and pragmatics
description: The Scottish girl means soccer, and the American girl means American football; each sport has its own rules. Who acts: Scottish girl, American girl, sport, football. A sentence of the lesson «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports, sentence 4

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The Scottish girl means soccer, and the American girl means American football; each sport has its own rules.

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**Who acts:** Scottish girl, American girl, sport, football · **What happens:** mean, have, rule · **To what, where:** soccer, American football, own rules

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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 (Scottish girl, American girl, sport, 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:4
# text = The Scottish girl means soccer, and the American girl means American football; each sport has its own rules.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	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 | the Scottish girl | soccer |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soccer=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the American girl | American football |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | each sport | football's own rules |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
| 4 | **rule** |  | football |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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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