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title: In baseball three strikes and the batter is out, four balls and the… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: batter, side, run, player. A sentence of the lesson «Cricket and rugby, baseball and Americ
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# Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football, sentence 17

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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.

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**Who acts:** batter, side, run, player · **What happens:** be, walk, bat, score, get round · **To what, where:** four bases

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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 (batter, side, run, player), 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:17
# text = 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.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	baseball	baseball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	strikes	strike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	batter	batter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	batter	batter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound
23	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
24	until	until	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	outs	out	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	over	over	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	innings	inning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	scores	score	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl	_	_
40	round	round	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
42	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	bases	base	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | the batter |  |  |  |  | four balls *obl*; out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | present | the batter |  |  |  |  | to first base *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to base=Result |
| 3 | **bat** |  | each side |  |  |  | until 3 outs |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **score** | present | a run |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get round** | present | a player | all four bases |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer base=Stimulus |

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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:17`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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