--- title: Shin pads are required by the Laws of the Game; the front of the shi… — Football: positions, rules and scoring · tree and pragmatics description: Shin pads are required by the Laws of the Game; the front of the shin bone has no muscle to cushion a kick. Who acts: Laws, front. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laws, front), 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:17 # text = Shin pads are required by the Laws of the Game; the front of the shin bone has no muscle to cushion a kick. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Shin shin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 required require VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:agent _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Game game PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 shin shin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 cushion cushion VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 kick kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obj 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **require** | present · passive | the Laws of the Game | Shin pads | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Precondition | | 2 | **have** | present | the front of the shin bone | no muscle | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient | | 3 | **cushion** | to-infinitive | the front of the shin bone *not said here* | a kick | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:17`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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