--- title: Leading is a skill, and children only learn it when the captain's jo… — Picking teams and being picked last · tree and pragmatics description: Leading is a skill, and children only learn it when the captain's job is shared around. Who acts: children, captain. A sentence of the lesson «Picking teams and being picked last» of the medicine 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/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/13/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Picking teams and being picked last](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/) / 13 # Picking teams and being picked last, sentence 13 Leading is a skill, and children only learn it when the captain's job is shared around. **Who acts:** children, captain · **What happens:** lead, be, learn, share around, job · **To what, where:** skill, job 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 (children, captain), 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:13 # text = Leading is a skill, and children only learn it when the captain's job is shared around. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 18 around around ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | gerund | | | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a skill | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | present | children | skill | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **share around** | present · passive | | the captain's job | | | | around *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **job** | | the captain | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:medicine:066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.lesson:13`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Picking teams and being picked last, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/12/) - next →: [Picking teams and being picked last, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/)