Fighting games at a friend's house, sentence 31
Playing a game with a parent who talks about it can make it less frightening and easier to understand.
Who acts: parent, Playing, game · What happens: play, talk, make, understand · To what, where: game
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting games at a friend's house» 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 (parent, Playing, game), 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 | Playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 make | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 parent | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 parent | det |
| 6 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 talks | nsubj |
| 8 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 parent | acl:relcl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 talks | obl |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 frightening | advmod |
| 15 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 make | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 easier | cc |
| 17 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 frightening | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 understand | mark |
| 19 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 easier | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | a game | with a parent | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with parent=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | a parent | about game | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | can | Playing | game | frightening property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 4 | understand | to-infinitive | game not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:31.
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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