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title: Now he plays it when Theo is in bed, and on Saturdays they play a ra… — Older siblings and YouTube gameplay · tree and pragmatics
description: Now he plays it when Theo is in bed, and on Saturdays they play a racing game together, where Marcus loses on purpose about once a month and pretends it was an accident. Who acts: Marcus, Theo, lights, scene. A sentence of the lesson «Older siblings and YouTube gameplay» of the everyday course of Mo
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# Older siblings and YouTube gameplay, sentence 4

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Now he plays it when Theo is in bed, and on Saturdays they play a racing game together, where Marcus loses on purpose about once a month and pretends it was an accident.

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**Who acts:** Marcus, Theo, lights, scene · **What happens:** play, be, lose, pretend · **To what, where:** scene, bed, racing game, purpose, accident

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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 (Marcus, Theo, lights, scene), 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:4
# text = Now he plays it when Theo is in bed, and on Saturdays they play a racing game together, where Marcus loses on purpose about once a month and pretends it was an accident.
# 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): no change
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Saturdays	Saturday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	Marcus	Marcus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	pretends	pretend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	ccomp	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **play** | present | Marcus | scene |  |  | now |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Theo |  |  | bed |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | present | lights *= light* | a racing game |  |  | saturday | together *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | present | Marcus |  |  | purpose |  | once *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pretend** | present | Marcus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | scene | a accident |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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/).

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