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title: Sam and Jake are playing Mario Kart. — The row over a game · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam and Jake are playing Mario Kart. Who acts: Sam. A sentence of the lesson «The row over a game» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The row over a game, sentence 0

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Sam and Jake are playing Mario Kart.

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**Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** Mario Kart

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The row over a game» 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 (Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:475-the-row-over-a-game.lesson:0
# text = Sam and Jake are playing Mario Kart.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 475-the-row-over-a-game.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): no change
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Mario	Mario	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Kart	Kart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · progressive | Sam and Jake | Mario Kart |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kart=Theme |

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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:475-the-row-over-a-game.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): no change. **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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