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title: So they try a real handicap instead: Gwil plays football left-footed… — Siblings as best mates and as rivals · tree and pragmatics
description: So they try a real handicap instead: Gwil plays football left-footed and gives Wynne a head start in races. Who acts: shots, Gwil. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Siblings as best mates and as rivals, sentence 16

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So they try a real handicap instead: Gwil plays football left-footed and gives Wynne a head start in races.

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**Who acts:** shots, Gwil · **What happens:** try, play, give · **To what, where:** real handicap, football, head start, Wynne, races

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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 (shots, Gwil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:16
# text = So they try a real handicap instead: Gwil plays football left-footed and gives Wynne a head start in races.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	handicap	handicap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Gwil	Gwil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	footed	foot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	Wynne	Wynne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **try** | present | shots *= shot* | a real handicap |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handicap=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** | present | Gwil | football |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | present | Gwil *not said here* | a head start | Wynne | races |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wynne=Recipient start=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:507-siblings-as-best-mates-and-as-rivals.lesson:16`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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