Homework, practice and the team counting on you, sentence 20
Reading the instructions first usually saves time, because mistakes made early can mean starting again.
Who acts: Reading, mistakes · What happens: read, save, make, mean, start · To what, where: instructions, mistakes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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 (Reading, mistakes), 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 | Reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 saves | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 instructions | det |
| 3 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Reading | obj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Reading | advmod |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 saves | advmod |
| 6 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saves | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saves | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 mean | mark |
| 10 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mistakes | acl |
| 12 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 made | advmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | aux |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 saves | advcl |
| 15 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 mean | xcomp |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 starting | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | the instructions | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Topic | ||||
| 2 | save | present | Reading | time | usually property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | make | participle | mistakes not said here | early property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | mean | can | mistakes | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | start not said to happen | gerund | mistakes not said here | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «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:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:20.
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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