--- title: Every May, Mill Lane Juniors play Station Road Rovers, and the Rover… — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics description: Every May, Mill Lane Juniors play Station Road Rovers, and the Rovers' parents chant «Mill Lane, Mill Lane, can't play a game!» Mill Lane lose 4–1 and Sam misses a sitter (an easy chance to score). Who acts: Lane Juniors, parents, Mill Lane, Sam. 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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 (Lane Juniors, parents, Mill Lane, Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:0 # text = Every May, Mill Lane Juniors play Station Road Rovers, and the Rovers' parents chant «Mill Lane, Mill Lane, can't play a game!» Mill Lane lose 4–1 and Sam misses a sitter (an easy chance to score). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.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, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 Mill Mill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Lane Lane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Juniors junior PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Station Station PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Rovers rover PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 14 Rovers rover PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 15 ' 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 chant chant VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Mill Mill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Lane Lane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Mill Mill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Lane Lane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 32 Mill Mill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Lane Lane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 35 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 compound _ _ 36 – - PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 misses miss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 sitter sitter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 44 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 score score VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 acl _ _ 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | Lane Juniors | Road Rovers | | | may | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent rover=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **chant** | present | the Rovers's parents | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **play** *in a quote* | can | Lane Juniors *not said here* | a game | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | present | Mill Lane | 4 1 | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **miss** | present | Sam | a sitter | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sitter=Stimulus | | 6 | **score** | to-infinitive | Sam *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:0`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [The kid who has it in for you, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/32/) - next →: [Rival teams and the older bully, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/)