--- title: Pretending you don't care about a game makes joining harder; just sa… — Joining a game, and the shy kid · tree and pragmatics description: Pretending you don't care about a game makes joining harder; just say «Can I have a go?» Who acts: you, Pretending, I. 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 every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/35/) [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/) / [Joining a game, and the shy kid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/) / 35 # Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 35 Pretending you don't care about a game makes joining harder; just say «Can I have a go?» **Who acts:** you, Pretending, I · **What happens:** pretend, not care, make, join, say, have · **To what, where:** go · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, Pretending, I), 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:35 # text = Pretending you don't care about a game makes joining harder; just say «Can I have a go?» # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 joining join VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 harder hard ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 just just ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 Can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:dep 20 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | you | | | | | about a game | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about game=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | present | Pretending | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **join** | gerund | Pretending *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | can | I | a go | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient | 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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:35`. **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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Joining a game, and the shy kid, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/34/) - next →: [Joining a game, and the shy kid, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/36/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/)