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title: Playing a game with a parent who talks about it can make it less fri… — Fighting games at a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: Playing a game with a parent who talks about it can make it less frightening and easier to understand. Who acts: parent, Playing, game. 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 c
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# Fighting games at a friend's house, sentence 31

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Playing a game with a parent who talks about it can make it less frightening and easier to understand.

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**Who acts:** parent, Playing, game · **What happens:** play, talk, make, understand · **To what, where:** game

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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 (parent, Playing, game), 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:31
# text = Playing a game with a parent who talks about it can make it less frightening and easier to understand.
# 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): no change
1	Playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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** | gerund |  | a game |  |  |  | with a parent | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with parent=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | present | a parent |  |  |  |  | about game | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | can | Playing | game |  |  |  | frightening *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **understand** | to-infinitive | game *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:31`.

**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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