--- title: Kai's family plays a party game every Friday, and the best part, Kai… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics description: Kai's family plays a party game every Friday, and the best part, Kai says, is not the game: it is the hour when nobody is in a hurry. Who acts: family, Kai, best part, nobody. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, Kai, best part, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:425-family-game-night.lesson:19 # text = Kai's family plays a party game every Friday, and the best part, Kai says, is not the game: it is the hour when nobody is in a hurry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 425-family-game-night.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 29 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hurry hurry NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 acl:relcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | Kai's family | a party game | | | friday | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kai | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | the best part | the game | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | family | the hour | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | nobody | | | a hurry | | | tree rules | 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:425-family-game-night.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): R6-punct-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: [Family game night, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/18/) - next →: [Family game night, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/)