--- title: When playing pretend with a younger child, let them lead and join in… — Sharing toys and playing board games fairly · tree and pragmatics description: When playing pretend with a younger child, let them lead and join in their story; pretend play helps little children learn. Who acts: you, toys, pretend play, little children. 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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, toys, pretend play, little children), 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:14 # text = When playing pretend with a younger child, let them lead and join in their story; pretend play helps little children learn. # 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): no change 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 3 pretend pretend ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 pretend pretend ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | pretend *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | toys *= toy* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lead** | infinitive | toys *= toy* *not said here* | | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 4 | **join** | infinitive | toys *= toy* *not said here* | | | | | in toys's story | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme | | 5 | **help** | present | pretend play | little children | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **learn** | infinitive | little children *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «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](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. 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