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title: Running games are safest when everybody follows the same rules: take… — Running games and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: Running games are safest when everybody follows the same rules: take turns, wait until the space is clear, and play fair even when you are out. Who acts: Running games, everybody, space, you. A sentence of the lesson «Running games and the playground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school 
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# Running games and the playground, sentence 0

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Running games are safest when everybody follows the same rules: take turns, wait until the space is clear, and play fair even when you are out.

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**Who acts:** Running games, everybody, space, you · **What happens:** run, be, follow, take, wait, play · **To what, where:** same rules, turns

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Running games and the playground» 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 (Running games, everybody, space, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:247-running-games-and-playground.lesson:0
# text = Running games are safest when everybody follows the same rules: take turns, wait until the space is clear, and play fair even when you are out.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 247-running-games-and-playground.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	Running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Running games |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | present | everybody | the same rules |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | the space |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **play** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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.

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