Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming, sentence 7
In cricket the bowler keeps the arm straight; bending and straightening it to throw is against the rules, and the umpire (the cricket referee) will not allow it.
Who acts: bowler, umpire · What happens: keep, bend, straighten, throw, be, not allow · To what, where: arm, cricket
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» 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 (bowler, umpire), 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 cricket | case |
| 2 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bowler | det |
| 4 | bowler | bowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 arm | det |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keeps | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 bending | punct |
| 10 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 keeps | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 straightening | cc |
| 12 | straightening | straighten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 bending | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 straightening | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 throw | mark |
| 15 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 straightening | advcl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 rules | cop |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 rules | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rules | det |
| 19 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 throw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 allow | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 allow | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 umpire | det |
| 23 | umpire | umpire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 allow | nsubj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 referee | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 referee | det |
| 26 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 referee | compound |
| 27 | referee | referee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 umpire | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 referee | punct |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 allow | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 allow | advmod |
| 31 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 keeps | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 allow | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the bowler | the arm | cricket | straight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Theme in cricket=Location | ||
| 2 | bend | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | straighten | gerund | arm | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 4 | throw | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | against the rules | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not allow | future | the umpire | arm | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
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:249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey.lesson:7.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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