--- title: Games about history often change facts to make the story exciting, s… — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics description: Games about history often change facts to make the story exciting, so facts should be checked in good books. Who acts: Games. A sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» 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/419-homework-first/27/) [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/) / [Homework first?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/) / 27 # Homework first?, sentence 27 Games about history often change facts to make the story exciting, so facts should be checked in good books. **Who acts:** Games · **What happens:** change, make, check · **To what, where:** facts, story, good books This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» 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 (Games), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:419-homework-first.lesson:27 # text = Games about history often change facts to make the story exciting, so facts should be checked in good books. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 419-homework-first.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Games about history | facts | | | | often *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Games about history *not said here* | the story | | | | exciting *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product | | 3 | **check** | should · passive | | facts | | good books | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:419-homework-first.lesson:27`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Homework first?, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/26/) - next →: [Homework first?, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/419-homework-first/)