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title: In rugby union a try, worth 5, needs the ball pressed down on or ove… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: ball, conversion, penalty goal. A sentence of the lesson «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» of the medicine course o
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# Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football, sentence 11

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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.

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**Who acts:** ball, conversion, penalty goal · **What happens:** need, press down, add, be · **To what, where:** ball, rugby union, 2, 3

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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 (ball, conversion, penalty goal), 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:11
# text = 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.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	opponents	opponent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	conversion	conversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
27	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	penalty	penalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **need** | present |  | the ball |  | rugby union and a try |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **press down** *not said to happen* | participle | the ball *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the opponents's goal line; down *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on line=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | a conversion | 2 |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a penalty goal or a drop goal | 3 |  |  |  |  | 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:045-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football.lesson:11`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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