--- title: Before a new game, read the rules together or ask someone who knows… — Sharing toys and playing board games fairly · tree and pragmatics description: Before a new game, read the rules together or ask someone who knows it, then deal fairly, shuffle well and never peek at others' cards. Who acts: you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:1 # text = Before a new game, read the rules together or ask someone who knows it, then deal fairly, shuffle well and never peek at others' cards. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.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 ×2 1 Before before ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 deal deal VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 19 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 shuffle shuffle VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 22 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 peek peek VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 ' 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | the rules | | | before a new game | together *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | someone | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | | 3 | **know** | present | | it | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **deal** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | then | fairly *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **shuffle** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **peek** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | at others's cards | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at card=Theme | 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:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:1`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sharing toys and playing board games f…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/0/) - next →: [Sharing toys and playing board games f…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/)