Football: positions, rules and scoring, sentence 5

Shin pads are compulsory, studs-up tackles are fouls, and young players don't practise heading, because their brains need protecting.

Who acts: Shin pads, studs up tackles, young players, brains · What happens: be, not practise, need, protect · To what, where: fouls, heading

This is a sentence of the lesson «Football: positions, rules and scoring» 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 (Shin pads, studs up tackles, young players, brains), 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	Shin	shin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pads	compound
2	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 compulsory	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 compulsory	cop
4	compulsory	compulsory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fouls	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fouls	punct
6	studs	stud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tackles	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tackles	compound
9	tackles	tackle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fouls	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fouls	cop
11	fouls	foul	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 practise	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 practise	cc
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 players	amod
15	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 practise	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 practise	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 practise	advmod
18	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fouls	conj
19	heading	heading	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 practise	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 need	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 need	mark
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brains	nmod:poss
23	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 need	nsubj
24	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 practise	advcl
25	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 need	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 compulsory	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Shin pads		compulsory property	tree rules
2	is a	present	studs up tackles	fouls		tree rules
3	not practise	present · do-support	young players	heading		tree rules
4	need	present	players's brains			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	protect not said to happen	gerund	players's brains not said here			vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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, 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:041-football-positions-rules-and-scoring.lesson:5.

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 ×3. 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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