Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 17

In baseball three strikes is out, and four balls (throws outside the strike zone, the area the batter should swing at) means the batter walks to first base.

Who acts: three strikes, batter, four balls · What happens: be, swing, mean, walk · To what, where: baseball, area · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» of the everyday 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 (three strikes, batter, four balls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 baseball	case
2	baseball	baseball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	obl
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 strikes	nummod
4	strikes	strike	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 out	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 out	cop
6	out	out	ADV	_	26 means	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 balls	cc
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 balls	nummod
10	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 means	nsubj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 throws	punct
12	throws	throw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 balls	appos
13	outside	outside	ADP	_	16 zone	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 zone	det
15	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 zone	compound
16	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throws	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 area	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 area	det
19	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 zone	appos
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 batter	det
21	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swing	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 swing	aux
23	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 area	acl:relcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	23 swing	obl
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 throws	punct
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 batter	det
28	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walks	nsubj
29	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 means	ccomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 base	case
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 base	amod
32	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walks	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 out	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	three strikes		baseball	out property	tree rules
2	swing	should	the batter	the area not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme area=Result
3	mean	present	four balls				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	walk	present	the batter			to first base result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to base=Result

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, 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:everyday:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.lesson:17.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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