Just one more game, sentence 18

Priya put a kitchen timer shaped like a chicken next to her console; when it squawked, she stopped, because it is easier to obey a beep than to argue with yourself.

Who acts: Priya, timer · What happens: put, shape, squawk, stop, be, obey · To what, where: kitchen timer, beep

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just one more game» 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 (Priya, timer), 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	Priya	Priya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 timer	det
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 timer	compound
5	timer	timer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
6	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 timer	acl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 chicken	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chicken	det
9	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shaped	obl
10	next	next	ADV	_	13 console	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 console	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 console	nmod:poss
13	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chicken	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 squawked	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 squawked	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 squawked	nsubj
17	squawked	squawk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stopped	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stopped	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stopped	nsubj
20	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 easier	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 easier	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 easier	expl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 easier	cop
25	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 stopped	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 obey	mark
27	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 easier	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 beep	det
29	beep	beep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 obey	obj
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 argue	mark
31	to	to	PART	_	32 argue	mark
32	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 obey	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 yourself	case
34	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 argue	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	past	Priya	a kitchen timer		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent timer=Goal
2	shape	participle		a kitchen timer not said here	like a chicken to Priya's console	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	squawk	past	timer			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stop	past	Priya			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	is	present	Priya not said here		easy property	tree rules
6	obey	to-infinitive	Priya not said here	a beep		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beep=Theme
7	argue speech: disagree	to-infinitive	Priya not said here		with yourself	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with yourself=Co-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:417-just-one-more-game.lesson:18.

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 ×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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