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title: A goal counts only when the whole ball has crossed the whole goal li… — Football: positions, rules and scoring · tree and pragmatics
description: A goal counts only when the whole ball has crossed the whole goal line between the posts and under the bar. Who acts: goal, whole ball. A sentence of the lesson «Football: positions, rules and scoring» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Football: positions, rules and scoring, sentence 11

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A goal counts only when the whole ball has crossed the whole goal line between the posts and under the bar.

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**Who acts:** goal, whole ball · **What happens:** count, cross · **To what, where:** whole goal line

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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 (goal, whole ball), 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:11
# text = A goal counts only when the whole ball has crossed the whole goal line between the posts and under the bar.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **count** | present | a goal |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cross** | present · perfect | the whole ball | the whole goal line |  |  |  | between the posts and the bar | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=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: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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