--- title: Watching a game being played can be just as frightening or upsetting… — Older siblings and YouTube gameplay · tree and pragmatics description: Watching a game being played can be just as frightening or upsetting as playing it yourself. Who acts: Watching. A sentence of the lesson «Older siblings and YouTube gameplay» 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/423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay/19/) [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/) / [Older siblings and YouTube gameplay](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay/) / 19 # Older siblings and YouTube gameplay, sentence 19 Watching a game being played can be just as frightening or upsetting as playing it yourself. **Who acts:** Watching · **What happens:** watch, play, be · **To what, where:** game This is a sentence of the lesson «Older siblings and YouTube gameplay» 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 (Watching), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.lesson:19 # text = Watching a game being played can be just as frightening or upsetting as playing it yourself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.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 1 Watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 frightening frightening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 upsetting upsetting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:appos 17 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | gerund | | a game | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 2 | **play** | gerund · passive | | a game *not said here* | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **is** | can | Watching | | | | | frightening *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Watching *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **play** | gerund | Watching *not said here* | game | | | | yourself *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay.lesson:19`. **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. **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: [Older siblings and YouTube gameplay, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay/18/) - next →: [Older siblings and YouTube gameplay, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay/)