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title: At a party, Ollie wanted to play the long story mode on his own whil… — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics
description: At a party, Ollie wanted to play the long story mode on his own while eight kids watched; they agreed story mode is for home and party games are for parties. Who acts: Ollie, eight kids, kids, home games. A sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Whose turn is it?, sentence 11

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At a party, Ollie wanted to play the long story mode on his own while eight kids watched; they agreed story mode is for home and party games are for parties.

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**Who acts:** Ollie, eight kids, kids, home games · **What happens:** want, play, watch, agree, be · **To what, where:** party, long story mode, own

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» 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 (Ollie, eight kids, kids, home games), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:11
# text = At a party, Ollie wanted to play the long story mode on his own while eight kids watched; they agreed story mode is for home and party games are for parties.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 397-whose-turn-is-it.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 ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **want** | past | Ollie |  |  | a party |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ollie *not said here* | the long story mode |  | Ollie's own |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mode=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | past | eight kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | kids *= kid* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | home games |  |  |  |  | for mode parties | tree rules |

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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:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:11`.

**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 ×2. **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/).

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