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title: In rugby the ball may only be passed sideways or backwards; a forwar… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football · tree and pragmatics
description: In rugby the ball may only be passed sideways or backwards; a forward pass gives the other team a scrum. Who acts: forward pass. A sentence of the lesson «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football, sentence 12

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In rugby the ball may only be passed sideways or backwards; a forward pass gives the other team a scrum.

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**Who acts:** forward pass · **What happens:** pass, give · **To what, where:** ball, rugby, scrum, other team

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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 (forward pass), 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:12
# text = In rugby the ball may only be passed sideways or backwards; a forward pass gives the other team a scrum.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	rugby	rugby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
9	sideways	sideway	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	backwards	backward	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	forward	forward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	scrum	scrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **pass** | may · passive |  | the ball |  | rugby |  | sideway *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in rugby=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | present | a forward pass | a scrum | the other team |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent team=Recipient scrum=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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**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:12`.

**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): 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/).

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