--- title: Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Four bat-and-ball and oval-ball games, four scoring systems. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/) [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/) / Cricket and rugby, baseball and Americ… # Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football Lesson 45 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/0/) — Four bat-and-ball and oval-ball games, four scoring systems. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/1/) — In cricket a hit over the rope in the air is 6, along the ground 4; in rugby union a try is 5; in baseball a run means getting round all four bases; in American football a touchdown is 6. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/2/) — Each game also has its own safety rule. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/3/) — A hard cricket ball means a helmet with a face guard; rugby passes go only sideways or backwards, and tackles never at the head; children start with tag rugby and flag football, pulling a tag instead of tackling. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/4/) — The most important rule is the same in every sport: after a knock to the head, if in doubt, sit them out. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/5/) — Seeing two balls, a headache, dizziness or just feeling odd can mean concussion, even with no knockout. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/6/) — In the UK there is no return to competitive sport for at least 21 days after a concussion, and only step by step: the brain heals more slowly than a bruise. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/7/) — In cricket the bowler tries to hit the stumps and the batter defends them, scoring runs by running between wickets 22 yards apart; an over is 6 balls and a team has 11 players. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/8/) — In cricket the bowler's arm mustn't straighten while bowling, so bowling is not throwing. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/9/) — A ball that crosses the boundary in the air scores 6; if it bounces or rolls over first, it scores 4. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/10/) — ECB guidance says young players must wear a helmet with a face guard when batting against a hard ball, and when keeping wicket up to the stumps. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/11/) — In rugby union a try, worth 5, needs the ball pressed down on or over the opponents' goal line; a conversion adds 2, and a penalty goal or a drop goal is 3. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/12/) — In rugby the ball may only be passed sideways or backwards; a forward pass gives the other team a scrum. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/13/) — Union has 15 players a side and league 13. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/14/) — Young children start with tag rugby, pulling a tag off a belt; in real tackling, contact with the head or neck is dangerous and banned. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/15/) — Headache, dizziness, double vision or feeling odd after a knock can be concussion, sometimes showing later, and most concussions happen without a knockout. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/16/) — UK guidance is "If in doubt, sit them out", with no return to competitive sport for at least 21 days and a step-by-step return. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/17/) — In baseball three strikes and the batter is out, four balls and the batter walks to first base; each side bats until 3 outs, over 9 innings, and a run scores when a player gets round all four bases. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/18/) — In American football a touchdown is 6; the kick after adds 1 or a two-point conversion adds 2; a field goal is 3 and a safety 2; the attack has 4 downs to gain 10 yards. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/19/) — Flag football, with flags pulled from a belt instead of tackles, means far fewer head knocks; it was reported it will be in the Olympics for the first time at Los Angeles 2028, five a side. - ← previous: [Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/44-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating/) - next →: [Hurt on the pitch: rolled ankles, dead legs, winded, and when to stop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/46-hurt-on-the-pitch-rolled-ankles-dead-legs-winded/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)