--- title: A hard cricket ball means a helmet with a face guard; rugby passes g… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football · tree and pragmatics description: A hard cricket ball means a helmet with a face guard; rugby passes go only sideways or backwards, and tackles never at the head; children start with tag rugby and flag football, pulling a tag instead of tackling. Who acts: hard cricket ball, rugby passes, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hard cricket ball, rugby passes, children), 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:3 # text = A hard cricket ball means a helmet with a face guard; rugby passes go only sideways or backwards, and tackles never at the head; children start with tag rugby and flag football, pulling a tag instead of tackling. # 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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 cricket cricket NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 rugby rugby NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 passes pass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 sideways sideways ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 backwards backward ADV RB _ 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 tackles tackle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 tag tag NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 rugby rugby NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 pulling pull VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 tag tag NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 42 case _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 tackling tackle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a hard cricket ball | a helmet | | | | with a face guard | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Topic | | 2 | **go** | present | rugby passes | | | | | sideways *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **start** | present | children | | | | | with tag rugby and flag football | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with rugby=Subeventuality | | 4 | **pull** | gerund | children *not said here* | a tag | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tag=Theme | | 5 | **tackle** | gerund | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:3`. **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 ×4, 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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