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title: A good team member listens to the coach, asks questions, tries the a… — Younger children, losing and practising · tree and pragmatics
description: A good team member listens to the coach, asks questions, tries the advice and tells the coach in advance when they will miss practice. Who acts: good team member, questions. A sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 3

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A good team member listens to the coach, asks questions, tries the advice and tells the coach in advance when they will miss practice.

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**Who acts:** good team member, questions · **What happens:** listen, ask, try, tell, miss · **To what, where:** questions, advice, coach, advance, practice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» 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 (good team member, questions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:3
# text = A good team member listens to the coach, asks questions, tries the advice and tells the coach in advance when they will miss practice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
26	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **listen** | present | a good team member |  |  |  |  | to the coach | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to coach=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a good team member *not said here* | questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 3 | **try** | present | a good team member *not said here* | the advice |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Eventuality |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a good team member *not said here* | the coach |  | advance |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient |
| 5 | **miss** | future | questions *= question* | practice |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer practice=Stimulus |

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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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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