Sharing toys and playing board games fairly, sentence 14

When playing pretend with a younger child, let them lead and join in their story; pretend play helps little children learn.

Who acts: you, toys, pretend play, little children · What happens: play, let, lead, join, help, learn · To what, where: toys, little children

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» 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 (you, toys, pretend play, little 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 playing	advmod
2	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 let	advcl
3	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 playing	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 child	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
6	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretend	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 playing	punct
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 join	cc
13	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lead	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 story	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 story	nmod:poss
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 join	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 helps	punct
18	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 play	amod
19	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 helps	nsubj
20	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lead	parataxis
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 helps	obj
23	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 helps	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	you not said here		pretend property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	imperative	you not said here	toys = toy		tree rules
3	lead	infinitive	toys = toy not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
4	join	infinitive	toys = toy not said here		in toys's story	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme
5	help	present	pretend play	little children		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	learn	infinitive	little children not said here			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:14.

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): no change. 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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