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title: Taking turns, or choosing games that fit three people, helps a three… — Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking turns, or choosing games that fit three people, helps a three stay fair. Who acts: games, Taking. A sentence of the lesson «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else, sentence 23

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Taking turns, or choosing games that fit three people, helps a three stay fair.

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**Who acts:** games, Taking · **What happens:** take, choose, fit, help · **To what, where:** turns, games, three people, three stay

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» 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 (games, Taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:23
# text = Taking turns, or choosing games that fit three people, helps a three stay fair.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.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	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
6	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | gerund |  | games |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 3 | **fit** | present | games | three people |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 4 | **help** | present | Taking | a three stay |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stay=Beneficiary |

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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:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else.lesson:23`.

**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.

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