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title: In checkers (draughts in the UK), you must jump when you can in stan… — Sharing toys and playing board games fairly · tree and pragmatics
description: In checkers (draughts in the UK), you must jump when you can in standard rules, and a piece reaching the far row is crowned king. Who acts: you, piece. 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 
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# Sharing toys and playing board games fairly, sentence 18

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In checkers (draughts in the UK), you must jump when you can in standard rules, and a piece reaching the far row is crowned king.

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**Who acts:** you, piece · **What happens:** jump, reach, crown · **To what, where:** checkers, far row, piece

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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), 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:18
# text = In checkers (draughts in the UK), you must jump when you can in standard rules, and a piece reaching the far row is crowned king.
# 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	checkers	checker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
4	draughts	draught	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **jump** | must | you |  |  | checkers |  | in standard rules | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in checker=Trajectory |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund | a piece *not said here* | the far row |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent row=Theme |
| 3 | **crown** | present · passive |  | a piece |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme king=Attribute |

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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:18`.

**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): no change. **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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