Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 12

Ollie said «I let you win» every single time, until Zara said «then let me win again», and Ollie admitted he had tried his hardest.

Who acts: Ollie, you, Zara · What happens: say, let, win, admit, try · To what, where: you, Zara, hardest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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 (Ollie, you, Zara), 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	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 win	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
14	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	advcl
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 let	advmod
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 win	advmod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 admitted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 admitted	cc
25	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 admitted	nsubj
26	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tried	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tried	aux
29	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 admitted	ccomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hardest	nmod:poss
31	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 tried	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ollie			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	past	Ollie	you		tree rules
3	win in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		time	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Zara			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let in a quote	infinitive		Zara	then	tree rules
6	win in a quote	infinitive	Zara not said here		again	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	admit speech: other	past	Ollie			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	try	past · perfect	Ollie	Ollie's hardest		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=Eventuality

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:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:12.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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