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title: In cricket the bowler's arm mustn't straighten while bowling, so bow… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football · tree and pragmatics
description: In cricket the bowler's arm mustn't straighten while bowling, so bowling is not throwing. Who acts: arm, bowling. 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 every clause.
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# Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football, sentence 8

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In cricket the bowler's arm mustn't straighten while bowling, so bowling is not throwing.

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**Who acts:** arm, bowling · **What happens:** not straighten, bowl, not throw · **To what, where:** cricket

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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 (arm, bowling), 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:8
# text = In cricket the bowler's arm mustn't straighten while bowling, so bowling is not throwing.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bowler	bowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	straighten	straighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bowling	bowl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	bowling	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	parataxis	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **not** **straighten** | must | the bowler's arm |  |  | cricket |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bowl** | gerund | the bowler's arm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **throw** | present · progressive | bowling |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=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:8`.

**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): 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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