--- title: Kid captains mostly pick their mates first, so the order shows frien… — Picking teams and being picked last · tree and pragmatics description: Kid captains mostly pick their mates first, so the order shows friendships and moods, not how good you are; Arjun, new from Mumbai, was picked last in Birmingham and then bowled out three batters. Who acts: Kid captains, order, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kid captains, order, you), 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:3 # text = Kid captains mostly pick their mates first, so the order shows friendships and moods, not how good you are; Arjun, new from Mumbai, was picked last in Birmingham and then bowled out three batters. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 captains captain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 moods mood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Arjun Arjun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:appos 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Mumbai Mumbai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 31 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Birmingham Birmingham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 bowled bowl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 batters batter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **pick** | present | Kid captains | captains's mates | | | | first, mostly *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Patient | | 2 | **show** | present | the order | friendships and moods | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friendship=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | you | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **pick** | past · passive | | Arjun | | Birmingham | | last *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **bowl out** | participle | | three batters | | | then | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent batter=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:medicine:066-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last.lesson:3`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Picking teams and being picked last, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/2/) - next →: [Picking teams and being picked last, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/)