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title: When matches were played without crowds in 2020, studies reported th… — VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries · tree and pragmatics
description: When matches were played without crowds in 2020, studies reported that home advantage shrank, but that does not make booing fair, and booing your own players knocks their confidence. Who acts: studies, home advantage, that. A sentence of the lesson «VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries» of the med
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# VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries, sentence 10

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When matches were played without crowds in 2020, studies reported that home advantage shrank, but that does not make booing fair, and booing your own players knocks their confidence.

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**Who acts:** studies, home advantage, that · **What happens:** play, report, shrink, not make, boo, knock · **To what, where:** matches, 2020, own players, confidence

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This is a sentence of the lesson «VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries» 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 (studies, home advantage, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:065-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries.lesson:10
# text = When matches were played without crowds in 2020, studies reported that home advantage shrank, but that does not make booing fair, and booing your own players knocks their confidence.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 065-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
19	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	booing	boo	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	obj	_	_
23	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	booing	boo	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	conj	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	knocks	knock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:parataxis
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 |  | matches |  | 2020 |  | without crowds | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **report** | past | studies |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **shrink** | past | home advantage |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | that |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **boo** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **boo** | gerund |  | your own players |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **knock** | present | that *not said here* | studies's confidence |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient |
| 8 | **confide** |  | studies *= study* |  |  |  |  |  | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×3, 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.

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