--- title: Games like I spy, counting number plates and audiobooks make a long… — Boredom, excitement and pride · tree and pragmatics description: Games like I spy, counting number plates and audiobooks make a long car journey pass faster. Who acts: I, Games, long car journey. A sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/7/) [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/) / [Boredom, excitement and pride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/) / 7 # Boredom, excitement and pride, sentence 7 Games like I spy, counting number plates and audiobooks make a long car journey pass faster. **Who acts:** I, Games, long car journey · **What happens:** spy, count, make, pass · **To what, where:** Games, number plates, long car journey This is a sentence of the lesson «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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 (I, Games, long car journey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:7 # text = Games like I spy, counting number plates and audiobooks make a long car journey pass faster. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 2 like like SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spy spy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 7 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 audiobooks audiobook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 17 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spy** | present | I | Games *not said here* | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus | | 2 | **count** | gerund | Games *not said here* | number plates and audiobooks | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | Games | a long car journey | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pass** | infinitive | a long car journey *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:093-boredom-excitement-and-pride.lesson:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Boredom, excitement and pride, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/6/) - next →: [Boredom, excitement and pride, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/)