--- title: Mia always won at her own house because she played every day, so she… — Sore losers and button-mashers · tree and pragmatics description: Mia always won at her own house because she played every day, so she started picking games nobody had played, and everyone began equal. Who acts: Mia, Priya, nobody, everyone. 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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 (Mia, Priya, nobody, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:18 # text = Mia always won at her own house because she played every day, so she started picking games nobody had played, and everyone began equal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.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 ×2 1 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 xcomp _ _ 18 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 25 nsubj _ _ 25 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | past | Mia | | | Priya's own house | | always *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at house=Eventuality | | 2 | **play** | past | Priya | | | | day | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **start** | past | Priya | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **pick** | gerund | Priya *not said here* | games | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient | | 5 | **play** | past · perfect | nobody | games *not said here* | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 6 | **begin** | past | everyone | | | | | equal *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. 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