Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch, sentence 3

Choosing well also means picking something instead of scrolling for ever, putting the phone down to catch the clues, and not spoiling the ending for others.

Who acts: Choosing · What happens: choose, mean, pick, scroll, put down, catch · To what, where: something, phone, clues, ending · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts 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 (Choosing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Choosing	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	csubj
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Choosing	advmod
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 means	advmod
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 picking	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 scrolling	mark
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	scrolling	scroll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 picking	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 scrolling	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 putting	punct
13	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 picking	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 phone	det
15	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 putting	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	13 putting	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	18 catch	mark
18	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 putting	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 clues	det
20	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 catch	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spoiling	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spoiling	cc
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 spoiling	advmod
24	spoiling	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 picking	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ending	det
26	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spoiling	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 others	case
28	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spoiling	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	gerund			well property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	Choosing			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pick not said to happen	gerund	Choosing not said here	something		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	scroll	gerund	Choosing not said here			tree rules
5	put down	gerund	Choosing not said here	the phone		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal
6	catch	to-infinitive	Choosing not said here	the clues		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Theme
7	not spoil	gerund	Choosing not said here	the ending	for others	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, 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:arts:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.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): 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.

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