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title: Most 2026 matches were played in North American time zones, so a 6 p… — The World Cup · tree and pragmatics
description: Most 2026 matches were played in North American time zones, so a 6 pm kick-off in Los Angeles was 2 am in the UK. Who acts: kick off. A sentence of the lesson «The World Cup» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The World Cup, sentence 9

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Most 2026 matches were played in North American time zones, so a 6 pm kick-off in Los Angeles was 2 am in the UK.

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**Who acts:** kick off · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** Most 2026 matches, North American time zones, 2, UK

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The World Cup» 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 (kick off), 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:9
# text = Most 2026 matches were played in North American time zones, so a 6 pm kick-off in Los Angeles was 2 am in the UK.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	zones	zone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	so	so	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
24	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **play** | past · passive |  | Most 2026 matches |  | North American time zones |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a kick off in Los Angeles | 2 |  | the UK |  | am *nmod:unmarked* | 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:061-the-world-cup.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): R6-punct-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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