Spending money online without asking, sentence 21

Using someone's phone without asking can drain their battery when they need it, so they may miss an important call.

Who acts: Using, tricks · What happens: use, ask, drain, need, miss · To what, where: phone, battery, important call

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spending money online without asking» 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 (Using, tricks), 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	Using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 drain	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 phone	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 someone	case
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 asking	mark
6	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Using	advcl
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 drain	aux
8	drain	drain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 battery	nmod:poss
10	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drain	obj
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 need	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 need	nsubj
13	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drain	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 need	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 miss	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 miss	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 miss	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 miss	aux
19	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 drain	parataxis
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 call	det
21	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 call	amod
22	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 miss	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drain	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	gerund		someone's phone	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	gerund			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drain	can	Using	tricks's battery	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent battery=Source
4	need	present	tricks = trick	battery	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	miss	may	tricks = trick	a important call	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus

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:362-gems-on-mums-card-fake-ages-and-pop-up-prizes.lesson:21.

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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