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title: Mixed teams of grown-ups and children make games fairer and make peo… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics
description: Mixed teams of grown-ups and children make games fairer and make people explain things kindly. Who acts: Mixed teams, people. A sentence of the lesson «Family game night» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Family game night, sentence 25

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Mixed teams of grown-ups and children make games fairer and make people explain things kindly.

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**Who acts:** Mixed teams, people · **What happens:** mix, grow, make, explain · **To what, where:** games, things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family game night» 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 (Mixed teams, people), 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:25
# text = Mixed teams of grown-ups and children make games fairer and make people explain things kindly.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
2	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	explain	explain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	xcomp	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | Mixed teams of grown ups and children | games |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | Mixed teams of grown ups and children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | people | things |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |

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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:425-family-game-night.lesson:25`.

**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, R8-pos-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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