The kid who is always on the bench, sentence 4

Kids grow at very different times, so small at 10 tells little about 16; meanwhile a good sub watches, cheers and stays ready, because many games are won by players coming off the bench.

Who acts: Kids, good sub, players · What happens: grow, tell, watch, cheer, stay, win · To what, where: little, 10, many games, bench · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who is always on the bench» of the medicine 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 (Kids, good sub, 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	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 times	case
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 different	advmod
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 times	amod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 small	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 small	advmod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grow	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 10	case
11	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 tells	obl
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 small	parataxis
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tells	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 16	case
15	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 tells	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 watches	punct
17	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	21 watches	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sub	det
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sub	amod
20	sub	sub	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 watches	nsubj
21	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 small	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cheers	punct
23	cheers	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 watches	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stays	cc
25	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 watches	conj
26	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stays	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 won	punct
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 won	mark
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 games	amod
30	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 won	nsubj:pass
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 won	aux:pass
32	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 watches	advcl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 players	case
34	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 won	obl:agent
35	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 players	acl
36	off	off	ADP	_	38 bench	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bench	det
38	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 coming	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Kids			time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present		little	10		about 16	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent little=Recipient about 16=Topic
3	watch	present	a good sub				meanwhile property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	cheer	present	a good sub not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	stay	present	a good sub not said here				ready property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	win	present · passive	players	many games				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
7	come off	gerund	players not said here	the bench				tree rules

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:medicine:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:4.

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 ×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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