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title: Sharing is a skill: take turns, use a timer, or find a game you can… — Sharing toys and playing board games fairly · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharing is a skill: take turns, use a timer, or find a game you can both play. Who acts: Sharing, you. 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 2

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Sharing is a skill: take turns, use a timer, or find a game you can both play.

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**Who acts:** Sharing, you · **What happens:** be, take, use, find, play · **To what, where:** skill, turns, timer, game

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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 (Sharing, 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:2
# text = Sharing is a skill: take turns, use a timer, or find a game you can both play.
# 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	Sharing	sharing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
7	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	timer	timer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	both	both	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Sharing | a skill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | infinitive |  | a timer |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timer=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | infinitive |  | a game |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Topic |
| 5 | **play** | can | you | a game *not said here* |  |  |  | both *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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:2`.

**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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