--- title: They nearly fall out over who builds the tallest tower, so they vote… — Friends through games and clubs · tree and pragmatics description: They nearly fall out over who builds the tallest tower, so they vote; Kieran loses and builds the best bridge instead. Who acts: mates, Kieran. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mates, Kieran), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.lesson:26 # text = They nearly fall out over who builds the tallest tower, so they vote; Kieran loses and builds the best bridge instead. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 4 out out ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 vote vote VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 instead instead ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 . . 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 | **fall out** | present | mates *= mate* | | | | | nearly, out *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **build** | present | | the tallest tower | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Product | | 3 | **vote** | present | mates *= mate* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lose** | present | Kieran | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **build** | present | Kieran *not said here* | the best bridge | | | | instead *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bridge=Product | 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:467-friends-through-games-and-clubs.lesson:26`. **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, 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: [Friends through games and clubs, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/24/) - next →: [Friends through games and clubs, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/467-friends-through-games-and-clubs/)