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title: For a school poster in Toronto, Liam is good at drawing and Ava at w… — Friends, teams and fair play · tree and pragmatics
description: For a school poster in Toronto, Liam is good at drawing and Ava at writing; working together, they make a poster that neither of them could have made alone. Who acts: Liam, rules, neither. A sentence of the lesson «Friends, teams and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Friends, teams and fair play, sentence 4

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For a school poster in Toronto, Liam is good at drawing and Ava at writing; working together, they make a poster that neither of them could have made alone.

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**Who acts:** Liam, rules, neither · **What happens:** be, draw, work together, make · **To what, where:** writing, poster

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends, teams and fair play» 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 (Liam, rules, neither), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson:4
# text = For a school poster in Toronto, Liam is good at drawing and Ava at writing; working together, they make a poster that neither of them could have made alone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	poster	poster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	Liam	Liam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case
12	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	poster	poster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
26	neither	neither	PRON	DT	PronType=Neg	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
32	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is** | present | Liam |  |  |  |  | for a school poster in Toronto; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund | Liam *not said here* |  |  | writing |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work together** | gerund | rules *= rule* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present | rules *= rule* | a poster |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poster=Product |
| 5 | **make** | could · perfect | neither | a poster |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset that=Product |

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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:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.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 ×1, 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/).

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