Just one more game, sentence 23

Deciding how many games or how long before you start is much easier than deciding while you play, when the fun pulls you to go on.

Who acts: you, Deciding, fun · What happens: decide, start, be, play, pull, go on · To what, where: many games, you

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 (you, Deciding, fun), 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	Deciding	decide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 easier	csubj
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 games	amod
4	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Deciding	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 easier	cc
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 easier	advmod
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 start	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 start	nsubj
10	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	advcl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 easier	cop
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 easier	advmod
13	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 deciding	mark
15	deciding	decide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 easier	advcl
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 play	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 play	nsubj
18	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 deciding	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pulls	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 pulls	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fun	det
22	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pulls	nsubj
23	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 deciding	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 pulls	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pulls	advcl
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 easier	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	decide	gerund		many games		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent game=Topic
2	start	present	you			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	present	Deciding		easy, long property	tree rules
4	decide	gerund	Deciding not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	play	present	you			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pull	present	the fun	you		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result
7	go on	to-infinitive	the fun not said here			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:23.

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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