---
title: Basketball is played 5 a side, so 10 players are on the court. — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating · tree and pragmatics
description: Basketball is played 5 a side, so 10 players are on the court. Who acts: 10 players. A sentence of the lesson «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/) / 10

# Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Basketball is played 5 a side, so 10 players are on the court.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** 10 players · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** Basketball, court

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» 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 (10 players), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.lesson:10
# text = Basketball is played 5 a side, so 10 players are on the court.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Basketball	basketball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
9	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · passive |  | Basketball |  |  |  | a 5 side *obl:unmarked* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | 10 players |  |  | the court |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.lesson:10`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/9/)
- next →: [Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/11/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/)

