Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football, sentence 3
A hard cricket ball means a helmet with a face guard; rugby passes go only sideways or backwards, and tackles never at the head; children start with tag rugby and flag football, pulling a tag instead of tackling.
Who acts: hard cricket ball, rugby passes, children · What happens: mean, go, start, pull, tackle · To what, where: helmet, tag
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cricket and rugby, baseball and American football» 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 (hard cricket ball, rugby passes, children), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ball | det |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ball | amod |
| 3 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ball | compound |
| 4 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 helmet | det |
| 7 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 guard | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 guard | det |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guard | compound |
| 11 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helmet | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | rugby | rugby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passes | compound |
| 14 | passes | pass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 sideways | advmod |
| 17 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 backwards | cc |
| 19 | backwards | backward | ADV | _ | 17 sideways | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tackles | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tackles | cc |
| 22 | tackles | tackle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sideways | conj |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 head | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 head | det |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tackles | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 start | punct |
| 28 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 start | nsubj |
| 29 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 rugby | case |
| 31 | tag | tag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rugby | compound |
| 32 | rugby | rugby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 start | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 football | cc |
| 34 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 football | compound |
| 35 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rugby | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 pulling | punct |
| 37 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 start | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 tag | det |
| 39 | tag | tag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 pulling | obj |
| 40 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 42 tackling | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 instead | fixed |
| 42 | tackling | tackle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 pulling | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a hard cricket ball | a helmet | with a face guard | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | present | rugby passes | sideways property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | present | children | with tag rugby and flag football | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with rugby=Subeventuality | ||||
| 4 | pull | gerund | children not said here | a tag | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tag=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tackle | gerund | children not said here | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: 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:045-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football.lesson:3.
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, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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