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title: And when Ruby beats Sam at chess in nine moves and says «GG, easy» —… — Joining a game, and the shy kid · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Ruby beats Sam at chess in nine moves and says «GG, easy» — good game — Sam laughs and asks for a rematch next week. Who acts: Ruby, Sam. A sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 19

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And when Ruby beats Sam at chess in nine moves and says «GG, easy» — good game — Sam laughs and asks for a rematch next week.

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**Who acts:** Ruby, Sam · **What happens:** beat, say, laugh, ask · **To what, where:** Sam, chess, GG · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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 (Ruby, Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:19
# text = And when Ruby beats Sam at chess in nine moves and says «GG, easy» — good game — Sam laughs and asks for a rematch next week.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	moves	move	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
14	GG	GG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
16	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound
23	laughs	laugh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rematch	rematch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **beat** | present | Ruby | Sam |  | chess |  | in nine moves | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent sam=Patient in move=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ruby *not said here* | GG |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **laugh** |  | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Sam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a rematch  next week | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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