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title: Just standing in an offside position is not an offence; getting invo… — Football: positions, rules and scoring · tree and pragmatics
description: Just standing in an offside position is not an offence; getting involved in play is. Who acts: standing. 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 every clause.
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# Football: positions, rules and scoring, sentence 9

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Just standing in an offside position is not an offence; getting involved in play is.

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**Who acts:** standing · **What happens:** stand, not be, get, be · **To what, where:** offside position, offence, play

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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 (standing), 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:9
# text = Just standing in an offside position is not an offence; getting involved in play is.
# 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	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	offside	offside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	offence	offence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
12	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | a offside position |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in position=Location |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | standing | a offence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  | play |  | involved *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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**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:9`.

**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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