--- title: Being beaten by a friend can be fun, and asking people to play is ho… — Joining a game, and the shy kid · tree and pragmatics description: Being beaten by a friend can be fun, and asking people to play is how many friendships start. Who acts: friend, asking, many friendships. 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 cl --- [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/42/) [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/) / 42 # Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 42 Being beaten by a friend can be fun, and asking people to play is how many friendships start. **Who acts:** friend, asking, many friendships · **What happens:** beat, be, ask, play, start · **To what, where:** people 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 (friend, asking, many friendships), 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:42 # text = Being beaten by a friend can be fun, and asking people to play is how many friendships start. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 csubj _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:agent _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 8 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 csubj _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | gerund · passive | a friend | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 2 | **is** | can | | | | | | fun *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | people | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **be** | present | asking | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **start** | present | many friendships | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:42`. **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): R6-punct-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, 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/41/) - next →: [Friends through games and clubs, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/)