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title: In chess, learn how each piece moves; the aim is checkmate, not capt… — Sharing toys and playing board games fairly · tree and pragmatics
description: In chess, learn how each piece moves; the aim is checkmate, not capturing everything. Who acts: you, piece, aim. A sentence of the lesson «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sharing toys and playing board games fairly, sentence 17

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In chess, learn how each piece moves; the aim is checkmate, not capturing everything.

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**Who acts:** you, piece, aim · **What happens:** learn, move, be, not capture · **To what, where:** chess, checkmate, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing toys and playing board games fairly» of the everyday 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 (you, piece, aim), 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:17
# text = In chess, learn how each piece moves; the aim is checkmate, not capturing everything.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
7	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	checkmate	checkmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	capturing	capture	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl
17	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | chess |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **move** | present | each piece |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the aim | checkmate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **capture** | gerund | the aim *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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:everyday:242-sharing-toys-and-board-games.lesson:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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