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title: Football looks simple, kick the ball into the goal, but the Laws of… — Football: positions, rules and scoring · tree and pragmatics
description: Football looks simple, kick the ball into the goal, but the Laws of the Game keep it fair and safe: only the goalkeeper may handle the ball, and only in their own penalty area. Who acts: Football, Laws, goalkeeper. A sentence of the lesson «Football: positions, rules and scoring» of the medicine cou
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# Football: positions, rules and scoring, sentence 0

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Football looks simple, kick the ball into the goal, but the Laws of the Game keep it fair and safe: only the goalkeeper may handle the ball, and only in their own penalty area.

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**Who acts:** Football, Laws, goalkeeper · **What happens:** look, kick, keep, handle · **To what, where:** ball, goal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Football: positions, rules and scoring» of the medicine 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 (Football, Laws, goalkeeper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:041-football-positions-rules-and-scoring.lesson:0
# text = Football looks simple, kick the ball into the goal, but the Laws of the Game keep it fair and safe: only the goalkeeper may handle the ball, and only in their own penalty area.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 041-football-positions-rules-and-scoring.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Game	game	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	goalkeeper	goalkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	penalty	penalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **look** | present | Football |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **kick** | infinitive |  | the ball |  |  |  | into the goal *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent ball=Patient into goal=Result |
| 3 | **keep** | present | the Laws of the Game | ball |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **handle** | may | the goalkeeper | the ball |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |

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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:medicine:041-football-positions-rules-and-scoring.lesson:0`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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