--- title: Big clubs often have more fans because they come from big cities or… — The football argument that goes in circles · tree and pragmatics description: Big clubs often have more fans because they come from big cities or won a lot long ago; who is better this season shows in the league table. Who acts: Big clubs, clubs. 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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 (Big clubs, clubs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:20 # text = Big clubs often have more fans because they come from big cities or won a lot long ago; who is better this season shows in the league table. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.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 ×2 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 clubs club NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 fans fan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 18 ago ago ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 csubj _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 league league NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Big clubs | more fans | | | | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Patient | | 2 | **come** | present | clubs *= club* | | | big cities | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **win** | past | clubs *= club* *not said here* | a lot | | | | ago *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | season | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **show** | present | Big clubs *not said here* | | | the league table | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:world:170-the-football-argument-that-goes-in-circles.lesson:20`. **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 ×2. **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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