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title: Cloth (bù) beats stone, stone beats scissors, scissors beat cloth, t… — Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat! · tree and pragmatics
description: Cloth (bù) beats stone, stone beats scissors, scissors beat cloth, the same as rock-paper-scissors. Who acts: Cloth, stone, scissors. A sentence of the lesson «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!, sentence 2

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Cloth (bù) beats stone, stone beats scissors, scissors beat cloth, the same as rock-paper-scissors.

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**Who acts:** Cloth, stone, scissors · **What happens:** beat · **To what, where:** stone, scissors, cloth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Games: rock-paper-scissors, hide and seek, cheat!» of the chinese street 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 (Cloth, stone, scissors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chinese-street:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:2
# text = Cloth (bù) beats stone, stone beats scissors, scissors beat cloth, the same as rock-paper-scissors.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chinese-street
# lesson = 014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bù	bù	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
13	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | Cloth | stone |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | present | stone | scissors |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scissors=Theme |
| 3 | **beat** | present | scissors | cloth |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloth=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chinese-street:014-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek.lesson:2`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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