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title: A ball that crosses the boundary in the air scores 6; if it bounces… — Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football · tree and pragmatics
description: A ball that crosses the boundary in the air scores 6; if it bounces or rolls over first, it scores 4. Who acts: ball, boundary. 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 9

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A ball that crosses the boundary in the air scores 6; if it bounces or rolls over first, it scores 4.

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**Who acts:** ball, boundary · **What happens:** cross, score, bounce, roll over · **To what, where:** boundary, 6, 4

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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 (ball, boundary), 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:9
# text = A ball that crosses the boundary in the air scores 6; if it bounces or rolls over first, it scores 4.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crosses	cross	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boundary	boundary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	scores	score	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bounces	bounce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	scores	score	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
23	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **cross** | present | a ball | the boundary |  |  |  | in the air | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent boundary=Patient in air=Topic |
| 2 | **score** | present | a ball | 6 |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Theme |
| 3 | **bounce** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | boundary |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **roll over** | present | boundary *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **score** | present | boundary | 4 |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=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:9`.

**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 ×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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