--- title: Tim wants to win the race, but stops to help a friend who falls; he… — Reading a story: characters, plot and setting · tree and pragmatics description: Tim wants to win the race, but stops to help a friend who falls; he comes last and smiles. Who acts: Tim, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Reading a story: characters, plot and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/22-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting/) / 8 # Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 8 Tim wants to win the race, but stops to help a friend who falls; he comes last and smiles. **Who acts:** Tim, friend · **What happens:** want, win, stop, help, fall, come · **To what, where:** race, friend This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the english 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 (Tim, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:8 # text = Tim wants to win the race, but stops to help a friend who falls; he comes last and smiles. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 Tim Tim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 9 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 21 smiles smile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | Tim | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **win** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tim *not said here* | the race | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | | 3 | **stop** | present | Tim *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | Tim *not said here* | | a friend | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary | | 5 | **fall** | present | a friend | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come** | present | Tim | | | | | last *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **smile** | present | Tim *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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](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:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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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