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title: Being bad at a game and laughing about it can be the most fun part o… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics
description: Being bad at a game and laughing about it can be the most fun part of the evening. 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 27

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Being bad at a game and laughing about it can be the most fun part of the evening.

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**What happens:** be, laugh · **To what, where:** game, fun part

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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: 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:27
# text = Being bad at a game and laughing about it can be the most fun part of the evening.
# 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): no change
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	cop	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	csubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | a game |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about game | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | can |  | the fun part |  |  | evening |  | 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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**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: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): 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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