Clocks, calendars and planning the day, sentence 16
Most people think jobs are quicker than they really are, so timing them once helps you plan.
Who acts: Most people, jobs, timing, you · What happens: think, be, time, help, plan · To what, where: jobs, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday 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 (Most people, jobs, timing, you), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quicker | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quicker | cop |
| 6 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 are | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 are | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 are | advmod |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quicker | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 helps | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 timing | advmod |
| 13 | timing | time | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 helps | csubj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 timing | obj |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 timing | advmod |
| 16 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 helps | obj |
| 18 | plan | plan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 helps | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Most people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | jobs | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | does | present | jobs = job | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | time | gerund | jobs = job | once property | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | help | present | timing | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | plan | infinitive | you not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning.lesson:16.
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 ×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.
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