--- title: Many grassroots referees are teenagers, and abuse from the touchline… — VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries · tree and pragmatics description: Many grassroots referees are teenagers, and abuse from the touchline is a big reason referees give up. Who acts: Many grassroots referees, abuse, referees. 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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 (Many grassroots referees, abuse, referees), 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:8 # text = Many grassroots referees are teenagers, and abuse from the touchline is a big reason referees give up. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 grassroots grassroots ADJ JJ _ 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod 3 referees referee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 teenagers teenager NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 8 abuse abuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 touchline touchline NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 16 referees referee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Many grassroots referees | teenagers and a big reason | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | abuse from the touchline | a big reason | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **give up** | present | referees | a big reason *not said here* | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Source | 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:065-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries.lesson:8`. **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): R1-cc-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. 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