--- title: Some games are won by thinking (chess) and some by luck (a simple di… — Safe toys and fair board games · tree and pragmatics description: Some games are won by thinking (chess) and some by luck (a simple dice game); in a game of chance nobody is to blame for losing. Who acts: nobody. 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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 (nobody), 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:5 # text = Some games are won by thinking (chess) and some by luck (a simple dice game); in a game of chance nobody is to blame for losing. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 chess chess NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 conj _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 dice dice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | present · passive | | some games | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | chess | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chess=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | nobody | | | a game of chance | | blame *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** | gerund | nobody *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/4/) - next →: [Safe toys and fair board games, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/)