The row over a game, sentence 30
Agreeing the rules before a game starts leaves less to fight about.
Who acts: game, Agreeing · What happens: agree, start, leave, fight · To what, where: rules, less
This is a sentence of the lesson «The row over a game» 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 (game, Agreeing), 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 | Agreeing | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 leaves | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rules | det |
| 3 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Agreeing | obj |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 starts | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 starts | nsubj |
| 7 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Agreeing | advcl |
| 8 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 leaves | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fight | mark |
| 11 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 less | acl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 fight | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | gerund | the rules | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent rule=Topic | |||||
| 2 | start | present | a game | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | leave | present | Agreeing | less | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | about property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:475-the-row-over-a-game.lesson:30.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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