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title: Flag football, with flags pulled from a belt instead of tackles, mea… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Flag football, football. A sentence of the lesson «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football
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# Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football, sentence 19

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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.

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**Who acts:** Flag football, football · **What happens:** pull, mean, report, be · **To what, where:** flags, fewer head knocks, football, Olympics

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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 (Flag football, football), 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:19
# text = 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.
# 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	Flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	tackles	tackle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	knocks	knock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Olympics	Olympics	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nmod
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	2028	2028	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	flat	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
38	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **pull** | participle |  | flags *not said here* |  |  |  | from a belt instead tackles | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from belt=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Flag football with flags | fewer head knocks |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knock=Topic |
| 3 | **report** | past · passive |  | football |  |  |  | a five side *obl:unmarked* | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | future | football |  |  | the Olympics | time |  | 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:19`.

**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.

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