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title: Games where everyone can join are better for parties than long singl… — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics
description: Games where everyone can join are better for parties than long single-player games. Who acts: everyone, Games. A sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Whose turn is it?, sentence 23

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Games where everyone can join are better for parties than long single-player games.

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**Who acts:** everyone, Games · **What happens:** join, be

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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 (everyone, 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:23
# text = Games where everyone can join are better for parties than long single-player games.
# 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): no change
1	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **join** | can | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Games |  |  |  |  | for parties; than long player games; good *property* | 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:23`.

**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): no change. **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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