The World Cup, sentence 0
The men's World Cup comes round every four years, and in 2026 it grew from 32 teams to 48 and was shared by three hosts, the USA, Canada and Mexico, so there were 104 matches instead of 64.
Who acts: World Cup, it, three hosts, 104 matches · What happens: come round, grow, share, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «The World Cup» 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 (World Cup, it, three hosts, 104 matches), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Cup | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 men | case |
| 4 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cup | compound |
| 5 | Cup | cup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 comes | advmod |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 years | det |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 comes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grew | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 2026 | case |
| 14 | 2026 | 2026 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 grew | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 comes | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 teams | case |
| 18 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 teams | nummod |
| 19 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grew | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 48 | case |
| 21 | 48 | 48 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 grew | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shared | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shared | aux:pass |
| 24 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 grew | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 hosts | case |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 hosts | nummod |
| 27 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shared | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hosts | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 USA | det |
| 30 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 hosts | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Canada | punct |
| 32 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 USA | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Mexico | cc |
| 34 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Canada | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 were | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 were | advmod |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 were | expl |
| 38 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 comes | parataxis |
| 39 | 104 | 104 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 matches | nummod |
| 40 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 were | nsubj |
| 41 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 43 64 | case |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 instead | fixed |
| 43 | 64 | 64 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 matches | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come round | present | the men's World Cup | year | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | past | it | from 32 teams; to 48 result; in 2026 | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient in 2026=Attribute from team=Initial_State to 48=Result | ||||
| 3 | share | past · passive | three hosts | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | past | 104 matches | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:061-the-world-cup.lesson:0.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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