--- title: In the playground, games need clear rules agreed before they start,… — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics description: In the playground, games need clear rules agreed before they start, and when a game gets too rough you stop it and tell the duty teacher (the teacher watching the playground) if it goes on. Who acts: games, game, you, teacher. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (games, game, you, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:2 # text = In the playground, games need clear rules agreed before they start, and when a game gets too rough you stop it and tell the duty teacher (the teacher watching the playground) if it goes on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 257-school-adults-and-the-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 19 too too ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 32 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 39 on on ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | games | clear rules | | the playground | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rule=Theme | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | | clear rules *not said here* | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **start** | present | games *= game* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** | present | a game | | | | | rough *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **stop** | present | you | playground | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | the duty teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 7 | **watch** | gerund | the teacher *not said here* | the playground | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playground=Theme | | 8 | **go on** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | playground | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP 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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Teachers, visitors and the playground, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/1/) - next →: [Teachers, visitors and the playground, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/)