Parents' rules for big games, sentence 18

They argued about it at dinner, not angrily, just properly — and then agreed to watch it together first.

Who acts: parents · What happens: argue, agree, watch · To what, where: dinner, game

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» 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 (parents), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 argued	nsubj
2	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 argued	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 argued	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 angrily	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 angrily	advmod
9	angrily	angrily	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 argued	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 properly	punct
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 properly	advmod
12	properly	properly	ADV	_	2 argued	advmod
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 properly	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 agreed	cc
15	then	then	ADV	_	16 agreed	advmod
16	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 argued	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 watch	mark
18	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 agreed	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 watch	obj
20	together	together	ADV	_	18 watch	advmod
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 watch	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 argued	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	parents = parent		dinner		about game; angrily, properly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	agree speech: agree	past	parents = parent not said here			then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	parents = parent not said here	game			first, together property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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