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title: In 2018 in Cape Town, Australian cricketers were caught changing the… — Cheating and doping, as reported · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2018 in Cape Town, Australian cricketers were caught changing the ball with sandpaper; Steve Smith and David Warner were banned for 12 months and Cameron Bancroft for 9. A sentence of the lesson «Cheating and doping, as reported» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Cheating and doping, as reported, sentence 14

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In 2018 in Cape Town, Australian cricketers were caught changing the ball with sandpaper; Steve Smith and David Warner were banned for 12 months and Cameron Bancroft for 9.

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**What happens:** catch, change, ban · **To what, where:** Australian cricketers, Cape Town, ball, Steve Smith

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating and doping, as reported» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:064-cheating-and-doping-as-reported.lesson:14
# text = In 2018 in Cape Town, Australian cricketers were caught changing the ball with sandpaper; Steve Smith and David Warner were banned for 12 months and Cameron Bancroft for 9.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 064-cheating-and-doping-as-reported.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	2018	2018	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nummod
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	Town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cricketers	cricketer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sandpaper	sandpaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	Steve	Steve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	Warner	Warner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	Cameron	Cameron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Bancroft	Bancroft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **catch** | past · passive |  | Australian cricketers |  | Cape Town |  | 2018 *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | gerund |  | the ball |  |  |  | with sandpaper | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent ball=Theme with sandpaper=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **ban** | past · passive |  | Steve Smith and David |  |  | month | for 9 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:064-cheating-and-doping-as-reported.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, 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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