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description: When you play pretend, like a toy kitchen or a doctor's kit, with a younger child, let them lead and join in their story; pretend play helps them learn about the world. Who acts: you, children, pretend play. A sentence of the lesson «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, ham
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# Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes, sentence 8

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When you play pretend, like a toy kitchen or a doctor's kit, with a younger child, let them lead and join in their story; pretend play helps them learn about the world.

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**Who acts:** you, children, pretend play · **What happens:** play, let, lead, join, help, learn · **To what, where:** children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» 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, children, pretend play), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.lesson:8
# text = When you play pretend, like a toy kitchen or a doctor's kit, with a younger child, let them lead and join in their story; pretend play helps them learn about the world.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.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
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
4	pretend	pretend	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det
12	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	kit	kit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	pretend	pretend	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	about	about	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **play** | present | you |  |  |  |  | like a toy kitchen or a doctor's kit and a younger child; pretend *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **join** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in children's story | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in story=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | present | pretend play | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 6 | **learn** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the world | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about world=Topic |

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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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**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:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts.lesson:8`.

**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. **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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