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title: "Soccer" was made up by students in England in the 1800s, from "asso… — British and American words · tree and pragmatics
description: "Soccer" was made up by students in England in the 1800s, from "association football"; Americans kept it to tell it apart from American football. Who acts: students, Americans, soccer. A sentence of the lesson «British and American words» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# British and American words, sentence 11

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"Soccer" was made up by students in England in the 1800s, from "association football"; Americans kept it to tell it apart from American football.

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**Who acts:** students, Americans, soccer · **What happens:** make up, keep, tell · **To what, where:** Soccer, 1800s, American football · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «British and American words» of the language 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 (students, Americans, soccer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:021-british-and-american-words.lesson:11
# text = "Soccer" was made up by students in England in the 1800s, from "association football"; Americans kept it to tell it apart from American football.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 021-british-and-american-words.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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Soccer	soccer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	association	association	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make up** | past · passive | students in England | Soccer |  | the 1800s |  | from association football | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Pivot |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Americans | soccer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | soccer *not said here* |  | soccer | American football |  | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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**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:language:021-british-and-american-words.lesson:11`.

**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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