--- title: The men's World Cup comes round every four years, and in 2026 it gre… — The World Cup · tree and pragmatics description: The men's World Cup comes round every four years, and in 2026 it grew from 32 teams to 48 and was shared by three hosts, the USA, Canada and Mexico, so there were 104 matches instead of 64. Who acts: World Cup, it, three hosts, 104 matches. 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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 (World Cup, it, three hosts, 104 matches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:061-the-world-cup.lesson:0 # text = The men's World Cup comes round every four years, and in 2026 it grew from 32 teams to 48 and was shared by three hosts, the USA, Canada and Mexico, so there were 104 matches instead of 64. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 061-the-world-cup.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Cup cup PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 round round ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 9 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 2026 2026 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 32 32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 48 48 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 hosts host NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 38 expl _ _ 38 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 39 104 104 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 matches match NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 41 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 43 case _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 41 fixed _ _ 43 64 64 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come round** | present | the men's World Cup | | | | year | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | past | it | | | | | from 32 teams; to 48 *result*; in 2026 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient in 2026=Attribute from team=Initial\_State to 48=Result | | 3 | **share** | past · passive | three hosts | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | past | 104 matches | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:061-the-world-cup.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Ill on match day: play or stay home?, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/60-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home/16/) - next →: [The World Cup, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/61-the-world-cup/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/61-the-world-cup/)