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title: In games like red light green light or Simon says you follow the cal… — Running games and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: In games like red light green light or Simon says you follow the caller and accept being out. Who acts: Simon, you. A sentence of the lesson «Running games and the playground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Running games and the playground, sentence 10

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In games like red light green light or Simon says you follow the caller and accept being out.

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**Who acts:** Simon, you · **What happens:** say, follow, accept, be · **To what, where:** games, caller · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Simon, 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:10
# text = In games like red light green light or Simon says you follow the caller and accept being 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	caller	caller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	accept	accept	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	out	out	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Simon |  |  | games like light green light |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **follow** | present | you | the caller |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caller=Theme |
| 3 | **accept** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:247-running-games-and-playground.lesson:10`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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