--- title: Agreeing the rules before a game starts leaves less to fight about. — The row over a game · tree and pragmatics description: Agreeing the rules before a game starts leaves less to fight about. Who acts: game, Agreeing. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/475-the-row-over-a-game/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The row over a game](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/475-the-row-over-a-game/) / 30 # The row over a game, sentence 30 Agreeing the rules before a game starts leaves less to fight about. **Who acts:** game, Agreeing · **What happens:** agree, start, leave, fight · **To what, where:** rules, less 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 (game, Agreeing), 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:30 # text = Agreeing the rules before a game starts leaves less to fight about. # 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 Agreeing agree VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | | the rules | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent rule=Topic | | 2 | **start** | present | a game | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **leave** | present | Agreeing | less | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme | | 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive | | | | | | about *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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:475-the-row-over-a-game.lesson:30`. **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/). - ← previous: [The row over a game, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/475-the-row-over-a-game/29/) - next →: [The row over a game, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/475-the-row-over-a-game/31/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/475-the-row-over-a-game/)