--- title: A boy in Texas kept cheating in games at break time; soon nobody wan… — Friends, teams and fair play · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas kept cheating in games at break time; soon nobody wanted to play with him, and he spent lunchtimes alone. Who acts: boy, nobody. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, nobody), 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:5 # text = A boy in Texas kept cheating in games at break time; soon nobody wanted to play with him, and he spent lunchtimes 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 cheating cheat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 14 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 15 nsubj _ _ 15 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 lunchtimes lunchtime NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 alone alone ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | a boy in Texas | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cheat** | gerund | a boy in Texas *not said here* | | | games at break time | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **want** | past | nobody | | | | | soon *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | | | | | with boy | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | | 5 | **spend** | past | boy | lunchtimes | | | | alone *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunchtime=Asset | 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:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson:5`. **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: [Friends, teams and fair play, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/4/) - next →: [Friends, teams and fair play, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/)