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title: Juniors in England start small, 7 against 7, then 9 against 9 from U… — Football: positions, rules and scoring · tree and pragmatics
description: Juniors in England start small, 7 against 7, then 9 against 9 from Under-11, on bigger pitches as they grow, so every child gets lots of touches of the ball. Who acts: Juniors, child. A sentence of the lesson «Football: positions, rules and scoring» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Football: positions, rules and scoring, sentence 1

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Juniors in England start small, 7 against 7, then 9 against 9 from Under-11, on bigger pitches as they grow, so every child gets lots of touches of the ball.

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**Who acts:** Juniors, child · **What happens:** start, grow, get, touch · **To what, where:** bigger pitches, lots, ball

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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 (Juniors, child), 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:1
# text = Juniors in England start small, 7 against 7, then 9 against 9 from Under-11, on bigger pitches as they grow, so every child gets lots of touches of the ball.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Juniors	junior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:parataxis
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	parataxis	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	pitches	pitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
31	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30: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 | **start** | present | Juniors in England |  |  | bigger pitches |  | small *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | present | Juniors *= junior* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present | every child | lots of touches of the ball |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus |
| 4 | **touch** |  |  | the ball |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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: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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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