Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 13
Five minutes a day with three to five words, as a game, works better than an hour of flashcards ending in tears.
Who acts: flashcards · What happens: work, end · To what, where: tears
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» of the english 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 (flashcards), 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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 works | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 minutes | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 words | nummod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 five | case |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 three | nmod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 day | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 game | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 game | det |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 works | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 game | punct |
| 15 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 works | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 hour | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hour | det |
| 19 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 works | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 flashcards | case |
| 21 | flashcards | flashcard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hour | nmod |
| 22 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 flashcards | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tears | case |
| 24 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ending | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | hour; minute | as a game; well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as game=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | end | gerund | flashcards not said here | tears | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:english:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:13.
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.
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