--- title: Sam's swimming rival Dev beats him by half a second every gala, so S… — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics description: Sam's swimming rival Dev beats him by half a second every gala, so Sam trains at 6am three times a week; at the county gala he wins by a fingertip, and Dev says, «About time, mate.» Who acts: swimming rival, Sam, rival, Dev. 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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 (swimming rival, Sam, rival, Dev), 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:4 # text = Sam's swimming rival Dev beats him by half a second every gala, so Sam trains at 6am three times a week; at the county gala he wins by a fingertip, and Dev says, «About time, mate.» # 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod:poss 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 swimming swimming NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 rival rival NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 5 Dev Dev PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 11 det:predet _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det:predet 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 11 second second ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 gala gala NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 16 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 trains train VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 20 am a.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 county county NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 gala gala NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 fingertip fingertip NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 Dev Dev PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 « « PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 41 About about ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 ccomp _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 46 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | present | Sam's swimming rival | Dev | | | | by every gala | tree rules | | 2 | **train** | present | Sam | | | 6 am | time | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **win** | present | rival | | | the county gala | | by a fingertip | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at gala=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dev | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:4`. **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 ×4, 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: [Rival teams and the older bully, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/3/) - next →: [Rival teams and the older bully, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/)