--- title: Leo's dad lets him try an older game as long as he stops if he feels… — Parents' rules for big games · tree and pragmatics description: Leo's dad lets him try an older game as long as he stops if he feels upset — and tells his dad. Who acts: dad, Leo. A sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Parents' rules for big games](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/) / 14 # Parents' rules for big games, sentence 14 Leo's dad lets him try an older game as long as he stops if he feels upset — and tells his dad. **Who acts:** dad, Leo · **What happens:** let, try, stop, feel, tell · **To what, where:** Leo, older game, dad · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dad, Leo), 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:14 # text = Leo's dad lets him try an older game as long as he stops if he feels upset — and tells his dad. # 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): no change 1 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 9 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 18 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 — - PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | Leo's dad | Leo | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **try** | infinitive | Leo *not said here* | a older game | | | | long *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality | | 3 | **stop** | present | dad | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **feel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | dad | | | | | upset *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Leo's dad *not said here* | | dad's dad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.lesson:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Parents' rules for big games, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/13/) - next →: [Parents' rules for big games, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/)