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title: Jake and Connor both want to be top scorer; in practice Jake starts… — The copier and the one who competes at everything · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake and Connor both want to be top scorer; in practice Jake starts going in late on Connor's ankles. Who acts: Jake. A sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The copier and the one who competes at everything, sentence 18

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Jake and Connor both want to be top scorer; in practice Jake starts going in late on Connor's ankles.

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**Who acts:** Jake · **What happens:** want, be, start, go in · **To what, where:** top scorer, practice, ankles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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 (Jake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:18
# text = Jake and Connor both want to be top scorer; in practice Jake starts going in late on Connor's ankles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc:preconj	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	scorer	scorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound
13	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
14	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	ankles	ankle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Jake and Connor |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jake and Connor *not said here* | top scorer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | present | Jake | practice |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go in** | gerund | Jake *not said here* |  |  | Connor's ankles |  | late *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ankle=Location |

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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:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:18`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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