Cheating at games and sport, sentence 15

Letting little ones win sometimes keeps them keen; older children usually want real wins, and can ask to play properly.

Who acts: little ones, Letting, older children · What happens: let, win, keep, want, ask, play · To what, where: length, real wins

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheating at games and sport» of the religion ethics 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 (little ones, Letting, older children), 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	Letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 keeps	csubj
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 win	nsubj
4	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Letting	xcomp
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 keeps	advmod
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keeps	obj
8	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keeps	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 children	amod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 want	nsubj
12	usually	usually	ADV	_	13 want	advmod
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keeps	parataxis
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wins	amod
15	wins	win	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 want	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ask	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ask	cc
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 ask	aux
19	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 play	mark
21	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ask	xcomp
22	properly	properly	ADV	_	21 play	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 keeps	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	gerund				tree rules
2	win	present	little ones			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	present	Letting	length	keen, sometimes property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	want	present	older children	real wins	usually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot win=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	can	older children not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	older children not said here		properly property	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:religion-ethics:093-cheating-at-games-and-sport.lesson:15.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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