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title: Moving to a club where you actually play is a sensible choice, not g… — The kid who is always on the bench · tree and pragmatics
description: Moving to a club where you actually play is a sensible choice, not giving up. Who acts: you, Moving, sensible choice. A sentence of the lesson «The kid who is always on the bench» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The kid who is always on the bench, sentence 11

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Moving to a club where you actually play is a sensible choice, not giving up.

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**Who acts:** you, Moving, sensible choice · **What happens:** move, play, be, not give up · **To what, where:** club, sensible choice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who is always on the bench» 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, Moving, sensible choice), 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:11
# text = Moving to a club where you actually play is a sensible choice, not giving up.
# 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): no change
1	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  | a club |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to club=Trajectory |
| 2 | **play** | present | you |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Moving | a sensible choice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **give up** | gerund | a sensible choice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:070-the-kid-who-is-always-on-the-bench.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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