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title: In soccer, an attacker is offside if they are behind the last defend… — Rackets, running with things in your mouth, foot… · tree and pragmatics
description: In soccer, an attacker is offside if they are behind the last defender (nearer the other team's goal than every defender except the goalkeeper) when the ball is passed forward to them. Who acts: attacker, soccer. A sentence of the lesson «Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or socce
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# Rackets, running with things in your mouth, football or soccer, offside, goals, sledding, practice and shared gear, sentence 8

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In soccer, an attacker is offside if they are behind the last defender (nearer the other team's goal than every defender except the goalkeeper) when the ball is passed forward to them.

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**Who acts:** attacker, soccer · **What happens:** be, pass · **To what, where:** soccer, last defender, ball

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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 (attacker, soccer), 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:8
# text = In soccer, an attacker is offside if they are behind the last defender (nearer the other team's goal than every defender except the goalkeeper) when the ball is passed forward to them.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	attacker	attacker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	offside	offside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	defender	defender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	defender	defender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	except	except	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	goalkeeper	goalkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
34	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | a attacker |  |  | soccer |  | offside *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | soccer |  |  | the last defender |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | present · passive |  | the ball | soccer |  |  | forward *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to they=Recipient |

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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.

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