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title: The word «football» means different games: soccer in the UK, Ireland… — Rackets, running with things in your mouth, foot… · tree and pragmatics
description: The word «football» means different games: soccer in the UK, Ireland and most of the world, American football in the USA and Canada, and often Australian rules or rugby league in Australia. Who acts: word. A sentence of the lesson «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offs
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# Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear, sentence 1

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The word «football» means different games: soccer in the UK, Ireland and most of the world, American football in the USA and Canada, and often Australian rules or rugby league in Australia.

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** different games

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear» 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 (word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice.lesson:1
# text = The word «football» means different games: soccer in the UK, Ireland and most of the world, American football in the USA and Canada, and often Australian rules or rugby league in Australia.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nmod
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
22	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod
32	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | the word | different games and Australian rules or rugby league in Australia |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Topic |

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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:328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3, 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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