--- title: Kid captains usually pick friends first, so the picking order says l… — Picking teams and being picked last · tree and pragmatics description: Kid captains usually pick friends first, so the picking order says little about skill. Who acts: Kid captains, picking order. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Picking teams and being picked last, sentence 8 Kid captains usually pick friends first, so the picking order says little about skill. **Who acts:** Kid captains, picking order · **What happens:** pick, say · **To what, where:** friends, little · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Kid captains, picking order), 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:8 # text = Kid captains usually pick friends first, so the picking order says little about skill. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 captains captain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 picking picking NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 14 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 . . 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 | friends | | | | first, usually *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the picking order | little | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic | 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:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/7/) - next →: [Picking teams and being picked last, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/66-picking-teams-and-being-picked-last/)