Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 35

Pretending you don't care about a game makes joining harder; just say «Can I have a go?»

Who acts: you, Pretending, I · What happens: pretend, not care, make, join, say, have · To what, where: go · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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 (you, Pretending, I), 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	Pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 makes	csubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pretending	ccomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 game	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 game	det
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 care	obl
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 makes	xcomp
11	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 joining	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 say	advmod
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 makes	parataxis
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 say	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 go	det
20	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund				tree rules
2	not care	present · do-support	you		about a game	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about game=Stimulus
3	make	present	Pretending			tree rules
4	join	gerund	Pretending not said here		hard property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: ask	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have in a quote	can	I	a go		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient

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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:35.

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 ×3, R8-pos-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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