Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 18

Mia always won at her own house because she played every day, so she started picking games nobody had played, and everyone began equal.

Who acts: Mia, Priya, nobody, everyone · What happens: win, play, start, pick, begin · To what, where: own house, games

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 (Mia, Priya, nobody, everyone), 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 won	advmod
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 house	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 played	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 played	nsubj
10	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 won	advcl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 played	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 started	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 started	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 started	nsubj
16	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 won	parataxis
17	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 started	xcomp
18	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 picking	obj
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 played	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 played	aux
21	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 games	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 won	conj
26	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 began	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	Mia		Priya's own house		always property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at house=Eventuality
2	play	past	Priya			day		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	start	past	Priya					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pick	gerund	Priya not said here	games				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient
5	play	past · perfect	nobody	games not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
6	begin	past	everyone				equal property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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:18.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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