--- title: She was grinning: «Six years I've been waiting for someone to beat m… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics description: She was grinning: «Six years I've been waiting for someone to beat me properly.» She hadn't let him win, and that is exactly why the win felt so good. Who acts: mum, dad, Theo, that. A sentence of the lesson «Family game night» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Family game night](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/) / 8 # Family game night, sentence 8 She was grinning: «Six years I've been waiting for someone to beat me properly.» She hadn't let him win, and that is exactly why the win felt so good. **Who acts:** mum, dad, Theo, that, win · **What happens:** grin, wait, beat, not let, win, be · **To what, where:** dad, Theo · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (mum, dad, Theo, that), 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:8 # text = She was grinning: «Six years I've been waiting for someone to beat me properly.» She hadn't let him win, and that is exactly why the win felt so good. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 grinning grin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 6 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux _ _ 11 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 properly properly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 20 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 win win NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grin** | past · progressive | mum | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | Mia's dad *= dad* | | | | year | for someone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **beat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mia's dad *= dad* *not said here* | Mia's dad *= dad* | | | | properly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | | 4 | **not** **let** | past | mum | Theo | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **win** | infinitive | Theo *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | that | | | | | exactly, why *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **feel** | past | the win | | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:8`. **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): R7-rel-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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/7/) - next →: [Family game night, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/)