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title: Kai, meanwhile, only ever plays with friends he knows in real life a… — Teams and voice chat · tree and pragmatics
description: Kai, meanwhile, only ever plays with friends he knows in real life and refuses to join random squads: «I don't know who they are, so no.» Good teams share jobs, take turns, talk clearly and kindly, and laugh at the tea moments. Who acts: Kai, boy, friends, Good teams. A sentence of the lesson «Teams
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# Teams and voice chat, sentence 18

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Kai, meanwhile, only ever plays with friends he knows in real life and refuses to join random squads: «I don't know who they are, so no.» Good teams share jobs, take turns, talk clearly and kindly, and laugh at the tea moments.

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**Who acts:** Kai, boy, friends, Good teams, I · **What happens:** play, know, refuse, not join, not know, be · **To what, where:** friends, real life, random squads, jobs, no. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teams and voice chat» 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 (Kai, boy, friends, Good teams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:405-teams-and-voice-chat.lesson:18
# text = Kai, meanwhile, only ever plays with friends he knows in real life and refuses to join random squads: «I don't know who they are, so no.» Good teams share jobs, take turns, talk clearly and kindly, and laugh at the tea moments.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 405-teams-and-voice-chat.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	refuses	refuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	squads	squad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	ccomp	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	mark	_	_
32	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
37	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
39	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
40	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
43	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	43	conj	_	_
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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** | present | Kai |  |  |  | ever | with friends; meanwhile *property* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with friend=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **know** | present | Kai | friends *not said here* |  | real life |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
| 3 | **refuse** | present | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **join** | to-infinitive | Kai *not said here* | random squads |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squad=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a boy from the year *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **share** | present | Good teams | jobs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **take** | present | Good teams *not said here* | no. |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 9 | **talk** | present | Good teams *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **laugh** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:405-teams-and-voice-chat.lesson:18`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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