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title: Games are not «for boys» or «for girls»; anyone of the right age can… — Fighting games at a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: Games are not «for boys» or «for girls»; anyone of the right age can play them. Who acts: Games, anyone. 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 29

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Games are not «for boys» or «for girls»; anyone of the right age can play them.

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**Who acts:** Games, anyone · **What happens:** not be, play · **To what, where:** ages · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Games, anyone), 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:29
# text = Games are not «for boys» or «for girls»; anyone of the right age can play them.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Games |  |  |  |  | for boys or girls | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | can | anyone | ages *= age* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:29`.

**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): 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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