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title: Anyone on the pitch can score, defend or save the game, whatever num… — Picking teams and being picked last · tree and pragmatics
description: Anyone on the pitch can score, defend or save the game, whatever number they were picked. Who acts: Anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Picking teams and being picked last» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Picking teams and being picked last, sentence 14

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Anyone on the pitch can score, defend or save the game, whatever number they were picked.

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**Who acts:** Anyone · **What happens:** score, defend, save, picked · **To what, where:** game, children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Picking teams and being picked last» 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 (Anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.lesson:14
# text = Anyone on the pitch can score, defend or save the game, whatever number they were picked.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.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): no change
1	Anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	score	score	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	det	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	picked	picked	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **score** | can | Anyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **defend** | infinitive | Anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | Anyone *not said here* | the game |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 4 | **picked** | past · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | whatever number *obl: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:066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.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): no change. **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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