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title: Simply put, you are offside if, when a teammate passes forward, you… — Football: positions, rules and scoring · tree and pragmatics
description: Simply put, you are offside if, when a teammate passes forward, you are in the other team's half and nearer their goal line than both the ball and the second-last defender; being level is onside. Who acts: you, teammate, level. A sentence of the lesson «Football: positions, rules and scoring» of the
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# Football: positions, rules and scoring, sentence 8

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Simply put, you are offside if, when a teammate passes forward, you are in the other team's half and nearer their goal line than both the ball and the second-last defender; being level is onside.

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**Who acts:** you, teammate, level · **What happens:** put, be, pass · **To what, where:** half, level

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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 (you, teammate, level), 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:8
# text = Simply put, you are offside if, when a teammate passes forward, you are in the other team's half and nearer their goal line than both the ball and the second-last defender; being level is onside.
# 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
1	Simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	offside	offside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	teammate	teammate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc:preconj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	_
36	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	defender	defender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	cop	_	_
40	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	onside	onside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | offside *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a teammate |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  | the other team's half |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | gerund |  | level |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | level |  |  |  |  | onside *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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. **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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