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title: Old card and board games from grandparents' childhoods are still fun… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics
description: Old card and board games from grandparents' childhoods are still fun to play today. Who acts: Old card. 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 29

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Old card and board games from grandparents' childhoods are still fun to play today.

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**Who acts:** Old card · **What happens:** be, play

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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 (Old card), 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:29
# text = Old card and board games from grandparents' childhoods are still fun to play today.
# 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	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	childhoods	childhood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** | present | Old card and board games from grandparents's childhoods |  |  |  | still | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Old card and board games from grandparents's childhoods *not said here* |  |  |  | today |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:29`.

**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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