--- title: Kieran competes with Sam at everything: who's taller, who runs faste… — The copier and the one who competes at everything · tree and pragmatics description: Kieran competes with Sam at everything: who's taller, who runs faster, who has more Robux, who can burp the alphabet furthest, who finished his chips first. Who acts: Kieran, more Robux. 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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 (Kieran, more Robux), 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:7 # text = Kieran competes with Sam at everything: who's taller, who runs faster, who has more Robux, who can burp the alphabet furthest, who finished his chips first. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 competes compete VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 Robux Robux PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 burp burp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 alphabet alphabet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj 26 furthest furth ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 finished finish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **compete** | present | Kieran | | | everything | | with Sam | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sam=Co-Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | tall *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **run** | present | | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | | more Robux | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robux=Patient | | 5 | **burp** | can | more Robux | the alphabet | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **finish** | past | | Kieran's chips | | | | first *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector chip=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:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:7`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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. 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