--- title: Sam in Leeds sits on the bench all match in his kit, getting colder,… — The kid who is always on the bench · tree and pragmatics description: Sam in Leeds sits on the bench all match in his kit, getting colder, and asks «Did I even play?»; coaches pick for many reasons (positions, who trained, who's played most), so sitting out once is not a verdict on you. Who acts: Sam, coaches, many reasons. 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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 (Sam, coaches, many reasons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:0 # text = Sam in Leeds sits on the bench all match in his kit, getting colder, and asks «Did I even play?»; coaches pick for many reasons (positions, who trained, who's played most), so sitting out once is not a verdict on you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 kit kit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 15 colder cold ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 coaches coach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 33 positions position NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 trained train VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 's have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl:relcl _ _ 41 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 obj _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 46 out out ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 45 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:advmod 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 49 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 verdict verdict NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 52 on on ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 nmod _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | Sam in Leeds | all match | | the bench | | in Sam's kit | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent match=Theme on bench=Location | | 2 | **get** | gerund | Sam in Leeds *not said here* | | | | | cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Sam in Leeds *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **play** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Sam in Leeds *= sam* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pick** | present | coaches | | | | | for many reasons | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **train** | past | many reasons | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **play** | present · perfect | many reasons | most | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme | | 8 | **sit out** | gerund | coaches *not said here* | | | | | once *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **not** **is a** | present | | a verdict | | | | on you | tree rules | 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:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Girls' and boys' teams, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/69-girls-and-boys-teams/15/) - next →: [The kid who is always on the bench, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/70-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench/)