Cheating in games and sports, sentence 7

Ben pretended to have a sore leg so he wouldn't come last on sports day.

Who acts: Ben · What happens: pretend, have, not come · To what, where: sore leg

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating in games and sports» 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 (Ben), 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	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 have	mark
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pretended	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leg	det
6	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leg	amod
7	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pretended	advcl
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 come	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 day	compound
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	Ben				tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	Ben not said here	a sore leg			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	not come	would	Ben		day	last property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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:everyday:341-cheating-in-games-and-sports.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.

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