--- title: Sports rules make games fair: in soccer the offside rule stops attac… — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports · tree and pragmatics description: Sports rules make games fair: in soccer the offside rule stops attackers waiting by the goal, and in cricket a bowler must not bend and straighten the arm like a throw. Who acts: Sports rules, offside rule, attackers, bowler. 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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 (Sports rules, offside rule, attackers, bowler), 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:5 # text = Sports rules make games fair: in soccer the offside rule stops attackers waiting by the goal, and in cricket a bowler must not bend and straighten the arm like a throw. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 compound _ _ 2 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 6 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 soccer soccer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 offside offside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 attackers attacker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 cricket cricket NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bowler bowler NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 bend bend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 straighten straighten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 throw throw NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Sports rules | games | | | | fair *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product | | 2 | **stop** | present | the offside rule | attackers | | soccer | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality attacker=Eventuality | | 3 | **wait** | gerund | attackers *not said here* | | | | | by the goal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by goal=Location | | 4 | **not** **bend** | must | a bowler | | | cricket | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cricket=Location | | 5 | **straighten** | infinitive | a bowler *not said here* | the arm | | | | like a throw | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | 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. 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