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title: Jayden wanted a 16 game for his tenth birthday, so he did what any s… — Parents' rules for big games · tree and pragmatics
description: Jayden wanted a 16 game for his tenth birthday, so he did what any serious person would do: he made a five-page presentation. Who acts: Jayden, serious person, person. A sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Parents' rules for big games, sentence 0

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Jayden wanted a 16 game for his tenth birthday, so he did what any serious person would do: he made a five-page presentation.

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**Who acts:** Jayden, serious person, person · **What happens:** want, do, make · **To what, where:** 16 game, page presentation

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» 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 (Jayden, serious person, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.lesson:0
# text = Jayden wanted a 16 game for his tenth birthday, so he did what any serious person would do: he made a five-page presentation.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 404-parents-rules-for-big-games.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tenth	tenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	presentation	presentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **want** | past | Jayden | a 16 game |  |  |  | for Jayden's tenth birthday | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | Jayden |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | would | any serious person |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | person | a page presentation |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presentation=Product |

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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:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.lesson:0`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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