Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 11
A game only keeps going if the players are happy to keep playing.
Who acts: game, players · What happens: keep, go, be, play
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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, players), 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 | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 keeps | advmod |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keeps | xcomp |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 happy | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 players | det |
| 8 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 happy | cop |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keeps | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happy | xcomp |
| 13 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a game | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | a game not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the players | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | the players not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | play | gerund | the players not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «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:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:11.
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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