--- title: In a relay you pass the baton into the next runner's hand; in a thre… — Running games and the playground · tree and pragmatics description: In a relay you pass the baton into the next runner's hand; in a three-legged race you start slowly and move together. Who acts: 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/247-running-games-and-playground/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Running games and the playground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/247-running-games-and-playground/) / 9 # Running games and the playground, sentence 9 In a relay you pass the baton into the next runner's hand; in a three-legged race you start slowly and move together. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** pass, start, move together · **To what, where:** baton, relay, legged race 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 (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:9 # text = In a relay you pass the baton into the next runner's hand; in a three-legged race you start slowly and move together. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 relay relay NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 baton baton NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nummod 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 legged leg ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 26 together together ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | present | you | the baton | | a relay | | into the next runner's hand | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent baton=Theme in relay=Destination | | 2 | **start** | present | you | | | a legged race | | slowly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **move together** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:9`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Running games and the playground, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/247-running-games-and-playground/8/) - next →: [Running games and the playground, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/247-running-games-and-playground/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/247-running-games-and-playground/)