Parents' rules for big games, sentence 6

Ruby's parents did something clever: before deciding, they sat down and watched a long gameplay video of the game she wanted.

Who acts: parents, Ruby · What happens: do, decide, sit down, watch, want · To what, where: something, long gameplay video, 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, Ruby), 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	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 parents	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ruby	case
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 did	obj
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 deciding	mark
9	deciding	decide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sat	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deciding	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 watched	cc
15	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 video	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 video	amod
18	gameplay	gameplay	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 video	compound
19	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watched	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 game	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 game	det
22	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 video	nmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wanted	nsubj
24	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 game	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ruby's parents	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
2	decide	gerund	parents = parent not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	parents = parent		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	past	parents = parent not said here	a long gameplay video of the game		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Theme
5	want	past	Ruby	the game not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=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:6.

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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