--- title: Sam asks some boys, «Can I play?» «Nah, teams are even, mate.» He go… — Joining a game, and the shy kid · tree and pragmatics description: Sam asks some boys, «Can I play?» «Nah, teams are even, mate.» He goes red and walks off fast. Who acts: Sam, teams. 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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 5 Sam asks some boys, «Can I play?» «Nah, teams are even, mate.» He goes red and walks off fast. **Who acts:** Sam, teams · **What happens:** ask, play, be, go, walk off · **To what, where:** boys · **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 (Sam, teams), 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:5 # text = Sam asks some boys, «Can I play?» «Nah, teams are even, mate.» He goes red and walks off fast. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 13 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 even even ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 vocative _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 22 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 red red ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 27 off off ADV RB _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod 28 fast fast ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Sam | | some boys | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **play** *in a quote* | can | Sam | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | teams | | | | | mate *vocative*; even *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | present | Sam | | | | | red *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **walk off** | present | Sam *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/4/) - next →: [Joining a game, and the shy kid, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/)