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title: His dad plays a 16 fighting game with him on Sunday mornings, sittin… — Fighting games at a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: His dad plays a 16 fighting game with him on Sunday mornings, sitting right next to him. Who acts: dad. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting games at a friend's house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fighting games at a friend's house, sentence 16

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His dad plays a 16 fighting game with him on Sunday mornings, sitting right next to him.

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**Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** play, sit · **To what, where:** 16 fighting game, Jayden

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting games at a friend's house» 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 (dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:16
# text = His dad plays a 16 fighting game with him on Sunday mornings, sitting right next to him.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nummod
6	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	right	right	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	next	next	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Jayden's dad | a 16 fighting game |  |  | morning | with Jayden | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | Jayden's dad *not said here* |  | Jayden |  |  | next *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:16`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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