Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 35
A real handicap, like playing with the weaker foot or a head start, makes the game fair and the win real.
Who acts: real handicap · What happens: play, make · To what, where: game
This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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 (real handicap), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 handicap | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 handicap | amod |
| 3 | handicap | handicap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 playing | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 6 playing | mark |
| 6 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 handicap | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 foot | det |
| 9 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 foot | amod |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 playing | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 start | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 start | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 start | compound |
| 14 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foot | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 handicap | punct |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 game | det |
| 18 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | obj |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 real | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 win | det |
| 22 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 real | nsubj |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fair | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | a real handicap not said here | with the weaker foot or a head start | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a real handicap | the game | fair property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product |
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.
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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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