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title: Picture the gym wall in Leeds: captains Jayden and Kai pick one by o… — Picking teams and being picked last · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture the gym wall in Leeds: captains Jayden and Kai pick one by one until only Oliver is left, and Kai rolls his eyes, «Ugh, fine, we'll have Ollie, innit»; Oliver's face goes hot and his stomach seems to drop. Who acts: you, captains, Kai, we. A sentence of the lesson «Picking teams and being pi
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# Picking teams and being picked last, sentence 0

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Picture the gym wall in Leeds: captains Jayden and Kai pick one by one until only Oliver is left, and Kai rolls his eyes, «Ugh, fine, we'll have Ollie, innit»; Oliver's face goes hot and his stomach seems to drop.

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**Who acts:** you, captains, Kai, we, face, stomach · **What happens:** picture, pick, leave, roll, have, innit · **To what, where:** gym wall, Leeds, one, Oliver, eyes, Ollie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Picking teams and being picked last» 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 (you, captains, Kai, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.lesson:0
# text = Picture the gym wall in Leeds: captains Jayden and Kai pick one by one until only Oliver is left, and Kai rolls his eyes, «Ugh, fine, we'll have Ollie, innit»; Oliver's face goes hot and his stomach seems to drop.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.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 ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	gym	gym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Leeds	leeds	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
18	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
29	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	fine	fine	INTJ	UH	_	35	discourse	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
36	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	's	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
45	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=44:cc
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | the gym wall |  | Leeds |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent wall=Theme |
| 2 | **pick** | present | captains | one |  |  |  | by one | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | present · passive |  | Oliver |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** | present | Kai | Kai's eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | future | we | Ollie |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ollie=Patient |
| 6 | **innit** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | present | Oliver's face |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **seem** | present | Oliver's stomach |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 9 | **drop** | to-infinitive | Oliver's stomach *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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**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:medicine:066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2, R5-strong ×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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