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title: ECB guidance says young players must wear a helmet with a face guard… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: ECB guidance, young players. A sentence of the lesson «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» of the medicine course of Mova's primar
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# Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football, sentence 10

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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.

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**Who acts:** ECB guidance, young players · **What happens:** say, wear, bat, keep up · **To what, where:** helmet, hard ball, wicket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» 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 (ECB guidance, young players), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:045-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football.lesson:10
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 045-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football.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	ECB	ecb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	batting	bat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
23	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
24	wicket	wicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stumps	stump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ECB guidance |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wear** | must | young players | a helmet |  |  |  | with a face guard | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |
| 3 | **bat** | gerund | young players *not said here* |  |  | a hard ball |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent against ball=Destination |
| 4 | **keep up** | gerund | young players *not said here* | wicket |  |  |  | to the stumps | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wicket=Theme |

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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): 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.

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