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title: Tennis counts in a strange old way, love, 15, 30, 40, game, and at 4… — Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating · tree and pragmatics
description: Tennis counts in a strange old way, love, 15, 30, 40, game, and at 40-all (deuce) you need two points in a row, so close games can go on and on. Who acts: Tennis, you, close games. A sentence of the lesson «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» of the medicine course of Mova's primary s
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# Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating, sentence 2

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Tennis counts in a strange old way, love, 15, 30, 40, game, and at 40-all (deuce) you need two points in a row, so close games can go on and on.

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**Who acts:** Tennis, you, close games · **What happens:** count, need, go · **To what, where:** strange old way, two points, row

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Basketball, tennis, skateboarding and ice skating» of the medicine 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 (Tennis, you, close games), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.lesson:2
# text = Tennis counts in a strange old way, love, 15, 30, 40, game, and at 40-all (deuce) you need two points in a row, so close games can go on and on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 044-basketball-tennis-skateboarding-and-ice-skating.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Tennis	tennis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	advcl	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	deuce	deuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
36	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	parataxis	_	_
40	on	on	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	on	on	ADV	RB	_	40	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **count** | present | Tennis |  |  | a strange old way |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **need** | present | you | two points |  | a row |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot point=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | can | close games |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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