--- title: Ruby's parents did something clever: before deciding, they sat down… — Parents' rules for big games · tree and pragmatics description: Ruby's parents did something clever: before deciding, they sat down and watched a long gameplay video of the game she wanted. Who acts: parents, Ruby. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, Ruby), 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:6 # text = Ruby's parents did something clever: before deciding, they sat down and watched a long gameplay video of the game she wanted. # 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 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 deciding decide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 gameplay gameplay NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Ruby's parents | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 2 | **decide** | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit down** | past | parents *= parent* | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **watch** | past | parents *= parent* *not said here* | a long gameplay video of the game | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Theme | | 5 | **want** | past | Ruby | the game *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=Theme | 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:6`. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/5/) - next →: [Parents' rules for big games, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/404-parents-rules-for-big-games/)