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title: «It's a GAME, Dad.» «One shot means one hit from being knocked out,»… — Teams and voice chat · tree and pragmatics
description: «It's a GAME, Dad.» «One shot means one hit from being knocked out,» she explained, in the voice of someone explaining something obvious to a very old person. Who acts: thing, One shot, shot. A sentence of the lesson «Teams and voice chat» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Teams and voice chat, sentence 8

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«It's a GAME, Dad.» «One shot means one hit from being knocked out,» she explained, in the voice of someone explaining something obvious to a very old person.

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**Who acts:** thing, One shot, shot · **What happens:** be, mean, knock out, explain · **To what, where:** GAME, one hit, voice, something, old person · **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 (thing, One shot, shot), 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:8
# text = «It's a GAME, Dad.» «One shot means one hit from being knocked out,» she explained, in the voice of someone explaining something obvious to a very old person.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	GAME	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	Typo=Yes	5	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
11	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	nmod	_	_
30	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	obj	_	_
32	obvious	obvious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | thing | a GAME |  |  |  | Dad *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | One shot | one hit |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hit=Topic |
| 3 | **knock out** *in a quote* | gerund · passive |  | one hit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | shot |  |  | the voice of someone |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | something | a old person |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to person=Recipient |

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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:8`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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