--- title: Pretend play helps little children learn about the world, so let the… — Safe toys and fair board games · tree and pragmatics description: Pretend play helps little children learn about the world, so let them lead the story and join in. Who acts: Pretend play, little children, toys. 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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 (Pretend play, little children, toys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:12 # text = Pretend play helps little children learn about the world, so let them lead the story and join in. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 302-toys-and-board-games.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 Pretend pretend ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 join join VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 19 in in ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RP:_ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | Pretend play | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **learn** | infinitive | little children | | | | | about the world | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about world=Topic | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | toys *= toy* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lead** | infinitive | toys *= toy* *not said here* | the story | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | | 5 | **join in** | infinitive | toys *= toy* *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:12`. **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/). - ← previous: [Safe toys and fair board games, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/11/) - next →: [Safe toys and fair board games, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/)