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title: «I'm the fastest kid in the whole world» after winning one race mean… — My dad could lift a car: playground boasting · tree and pragmatics
description: «I'm the fastest kid in the whole world» after winning one race means «I'm fast and happy I won»; there is no world ranking for Year 5, and «Nice run!» is enough. Who acts: someone, I, fastest kid, world ranking. A sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language
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# My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 9

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«I'm the fastest kid in the whole world» after winning one race means «I'm fast and happy I won»; there is no world ranking for Year 5, and «Nice run!» is enough.

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**Who acts:** someone, I, fastest kid, world ranking, Nice run · **What happens:** be, win, mean · **To what, where:** fastest kid, whole world, one race · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language 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 (someone, I, fastest kid, world ranking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:9
# text = «I'm the fastest kid in the whole world» after winning one race means «I'm fast and happy I won»; there is no world ranking for Year 5, and «Nice run!» is enough.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	ranking	ranking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
34	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	flat	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
38	Nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
41	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | someone | the fastest kid |  | the whole world |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | gerund | I *not said here* | one race |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
| 3 | **mean** | present | the fastest kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | someone |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **win** *in a quote* | past | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **be** | present | no world ranking for Year |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | present | Nice run |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |

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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:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:9`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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