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title: Goalball is played 3 against 3 by athletes with visual impairments;… — The Olympics and Paralympics · tree and pragmatics
description: Goalball is played 3 against 3 by athletes with visual impairments; everyone wears eyeshades so it is fair, and the ball has bells inside. Who acts: athletes, everyone, athlete, ball. A sentence of the lesson «The Olympics and Paralympics» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# The Olympics and Paralympics, sentence 14

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Goalball is played 3 against 3 by athletes with visual impairments; everyone wears eyeshades so it is fair, and the ball has bells inside.

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**Who acts:** athletes, everyone, athlete, ball · **What happens:** play, wear, be, have · **To what, where:** Goalball, eyeshades, bells

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Olympics and Paralympics» 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 (athletes, everyone, athlete, ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:062-the-olympics-and-paralympics.lesson:14
# text = Goalball is played 3 against 3 by athletes with visual impairments; everyone wears eyeshades so it is fair, and the ball has bells inside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 062-the-olympics-and-paralympics.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	Goalball	Goalball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	athletes	athlete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	visual	visual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	impairments	impairment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	eyeshades	eyeshade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
25	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | present · passive | athletes with visual impairments | Goalball |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary 3=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | present | everyone | eyeshades |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eyeshade=Source |
| 3 | **is** | present | athlete |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | the ball | bells |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient |

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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:062-the-olympics-and-paralympics.lesson:14`.

**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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